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[M.142L]                                                              [M.142]	Ca Farsetti	142
First story of Farsetti. p 53 l &c  It is composed of pairs of shafts 
with stilted arches of a2 section:  the elevation of a pair of        		the added left hand moulding place the point p continue
shafts with masonry above at fig 9: the rolls being of red marble:    		section up and it is the house angle above the cornice
the rest of Istrian stone. or marble painted.  There is something     		the section d p being put here to bring it within paper.
suspicious to me about these arches, the masonry under the            		Then: on the opposite page:  1 is horizontal section at a
roll looks common & modern: if old, they are the highest              		the stilted arches worked with underlaid slabs round
stilted arches with a2 that I have yet found.  The shafts are         		edged: (? has an outer roll been removed in restorations)
cut placed enturely clear, two inches nearly out from their pedesta the block		2 Section on the line b; showing the curious little double
pilaster behind them: the capital of both shafts is a block           		ordered archivolt - all cut in from the flat surface of
resting on the pilaster and receiving the shafts bridging the         		the panel.  3 section through c; showing incision of
interval;  fig 10 is a plan:  the thick line of the bottom            		triangular line, and the little back of the archivolt, and the
of the capital under the roll, the dotted lines of pilaster &         		small capital through its side.  4 the same small capital,
shafts, only pilaster should be deeper.  Fig 7 & 8 are profiles       		larger.  5, base of small shaft, showing how it projects
7 of the plain shaft head of the narrower side arches, 8 of           		over the panel mouldings which go entirely round: and
the ugly & rude head utterly barbarous of the central arches:  vid daguerre.		as they come between the small archivolts, and the roll of the
The bases are the same as on ground floor, and have had the           		great cornice, so they come between the small bases, and
same continuous plinth now broken away.  Fig 11 is, as well           		the roll of the great base.  This great base is just as continuous
as I could see the flat cornice on top of first story.  On next       		as the great cornice, forming a plinth, and plain bases to
page 149l are measures taken on one of central arches                 		shafts as in fondaco di Turchi.  Only here, there are no
                                                                      		leaves at the angles, plain circular mouldings on square
                                                                      		plinth, fig 6 p 53 l; it is impossible therefore to have
                                                                      		a simpler arrangement,  I may almost begin with it.
                                                                      		- and the curious furrowed system and equal levels of
                                                                      		the omouldings make it highly interesting.  The other
                                                                      		figures at p 53 are of upper, first story, Vid opp.

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