[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)cutplaced enturely clear, two inches nearly out fromtheir pedestathe 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. Onnextas 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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