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[M.110L] [M.110] House at Arsenal 110
Extract from Sansovino - Case and Palazzi, p 381
Smallness of houses towards terra firma - as earlier p 382
Architecture of Goths - same page: Height of houses
the lege Daula same page.
- House No 55, H b 1 in fig 1 the band of the shaft, observe
that the cavetto appeared to me constructed
thus - [diagram] but only of curves that blended into
one line [diagram] of this however I
cannot be quite certain, it is too small to judge:
Staircase. Of the staircase only the trefoiled arches remain only
at the top - plan being exactly that of the Bembo one
p 118 Selvatico - They have been as at fig 2
The steps themselves are merely decorated on the side with an incision plain incised - like Doge’s palaces Capitals rude
like a half bead: ie. [diagram] leafy florid - seem to have been changed: All
carrying a renaissance looking plinth, fig 3.
An arch over a gutter which runs under the stair
is about a foot wide of the same trefoil as balustrade, very
pretty so drawn in darkness.
Below a in fig 1 is drawn the curious base, its roll and
cavetto - or rather plain pyramidal or conic base are of course
round on the square plinth which is in same block; but now
half buried, the half shaft; the band being in the middle,
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