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[M.207L]                                                              [M.207]	St Andrea. Gutter Dogtooth	207
                                                                      
                                                                      		main door may be mentioned with Miracoli as a lovely example
                                                                      		of cinquecento:  remarkable for beautiful use of bindweed
                                                                      		Convolvulus.
                                                                      		A  There is a fair simple trefoil rather blunt in the joint
                                                                      		in the windows of St Andrea; whose basrelief over western
                                                                      		door is interesting - Christ, with Peter and Andrew - Peter
                                                                      		walking on the water: a rocky coast, spring & fine.   The
This dogt.  So far separated as to become almost a chain of detached  		present Gondola was {floating by} St Andrews boat.
stars- as at p 8 bit book. and very small, is used round two          		In St Giacomo dell Orio,  the capital is has the earliest
circular marbles inserted in first story of a  house in Campo St Polo 		rude spiral on the angle; as constant at Padua & throughout
- a series of florid 6ths which have had their cusps cut away.        		north Italy, a single byzantine capital is used together
and above, there is series of beautiful slender shafted florid capitalised		with it.
5ths with circular marbles inserted in cabled rolls.  The 6ths        		San Giovan in Bragora  same as  the Carmini
have florid capitals with cherub heads.                               	St Marks. Upper shafts between the first and second porch
                                                                      		Each exactly 2 " 7¾ round at base, and 1 " 5 apart
                                                                      		at base, and on octagonal [?] plinths 6 in the side
                                                                      		which their circular bases meet [diagram] so
                                                                      Dogteeth of Venice.  The gutters are of marble, {theoretically} chamfered on
                                                                      		the edge, but in fact, hacked into diamonds, only
                                                                      		then the east side of the diamond is cut on the line of
                                                                      		the two leaves, down to the chamfer surface: a portion
                                                                      		of which flat is seen between the diamonds.  But
                                                                      		there is no undercutting.

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