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[M.218L]                                                              [M.218]	Ramo Rimpetto Mocenigo. Doors.	218
Rialto.  The building (renaissance) close to it opposite Fondaco de   
Tedeschi was built in reign of Andrea Gritti about 1530.              		The coat of arms is of course in stone and very early  I hardly
- it was the Republics treasury or office of the Camerlenghi.         		remember any other leaves with the sharp double incision run
                                                                      		into one at the root.  They are of course Byzantine in manner,
                                                                      		fig 6 the one above the thong of pendant shield:  (whose {wrong}
                                                                      		sharp {up} turn about the nail is curious - the carver seems to
                                                                      		have been puzzled by it.) fig 5 the top of one of the
                                                                      		lower angle leaves, on right hand.
                                                                      		Finally the setting of the bits of brick is most carefully
                                                                      		at the top of gable in p 28 and counting the bit so
                                                                      		marked as 2. there are 32 rows to the butment sharp
                                                                      		lowest angle below x p 29 and these are then carefully
                                                                      		drawn in their true fan like radiation, the same as
                                                                      		post office door.  The bricks being about 1½ inch wide.
                                                                      		so also those of the archivolt band my, there being
                                                                      		about 64 round the arch.
                                                                      Ducal Palace.  Pattern.  P 5w  St M.







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