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[M.38L] [M.38]
[diagram] No 15 - 16 Church of Frari. Ca' d'Oro 38
The gables are sadly defaced: Their internal foliation has been something
as opposite. The lines of the arch mouldings look like simple
[diagram] The base of the shafts confused by brick & tile work
- the shafts of green marble. The cable moulding in the cornice
below, (of bricks all but the string & brackets; left white)
is curious from its radiation: it is as I have drawn it and as
close in the coil: but there should be a space between it and the
diamonds as opposite. The arches below run up, with the
cornice, all along the façade, exactly as at the San G & P only
here, there is a piece of brickwork of an Arabesque line
above - as so often seen in Canaletto; it is seen in perspective
to the top, with two bits of the shafts of the central & crowning
niche in my drawing. The arches of the cornice and their
bracket are drawn at a: the circular sunk holes of brick
each have a different filling; 5 more are given above
No 16 Fig 2 is not enough explained in drawing: The fillet round
the arch being produced by a slight hollow seen in the section at
A. which point is the A2 of the drawn arch, and, B is B2.
The leaves rise boldly out of this depression.
Traceries No 17 fig 1: Rude drawing of the tracery of the two larger
Ca d'Oro. windows on the wide, or Rialto side of the secon first story
of ca d’Oro: The tracery was drawn from the innermost
window, next central arcade; looking from within so as to get as
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[Version 0.05: May 2008]