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[M.124L] [M.124]
No 111 Ca Grandiben 124
[diagram] it: Can this indeed be an early tracery: It is in point
of bounding the stonework by moulding, more scientific than
that of Mad. dell Orto. in style it corresponds much more with
the Servi, fig 1 No 108 (one of the windows left in the body
of the church - observe the pilasters which once carried them
removed and deeply to be regretted tracery) and is this
chamfer and foll the origin of that employed afterwards so properly
Note the bit from Doge palace capitals is Istrian stone. in the domestic Gothic.
used constantly for pubbriche, for common work. The beautiful palace near Arsenal of which the shafts
with rich intermediate Byzantine birds are dagued.
has over its door the shield opposite - its back door
The older stone found by Mr Brown for me - the old Sculptor at least - leading into "Calle Grandiben" doubtless
alle pietra di Porto chieto and guilto is Istria - and called in the arms of the Grandiben family (heaps of money) who are mentioned
Venice pietra Bandia. in Mr Brown’s note to
- House No 77 Grotesque of pilaster: its effect is not that
Grotesque intended by sculptor - the whites should all be darker
and it would then be much poorer, but the scales
of it are very clever: the man must have been a
kind of Agassiz, and the fin at the gill radiates
like La Scala crests & Titian’s wing. Note, this
gill goes into a hollow in the stone, the head
being for the rest, - cut flat by incisions into the square
base of the spiral chamfer.
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[Version 0.05: May 2008]