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[M.68L] [M.68]
No 47. Ca Giustiniani 68
in fig F. which is a perspective sketch of head of window,
showing the 4foil: G perspective sketch of lower arches of
tracery with their curious finial: showing the plain filleted
not trefoiled cusp and use of section B . Observe in a the flattened
semicircle going round tracery as at Ca d’Oro, and
in G. the strange pilaster head; or rather half shaft
head; (there are the first half shafts I have met with)
whose leafage is florid in feeling; but bluntly and
coldly cut, and the head vilely; the base of this
½ shaft (also that of the whole central arcade)
is seen below: I suspect restoration.
Traceries Fig 2. Traceries of central arcade: of third or principal
story: The sections A and B at arch head and
through cusp of the lower arch, C, were drawn with
great care: singular for both their flat wide, half levelled
cavetto, and their deep half levelled roll. Exactly
the reverse, as we shall see presently, of the Pisani
C. cusp of main arch: how curiously different from
¶Ù²¹²Ô¾±±ð±ô¾±’s: in its parallelism for so long a line; though
the fillet left is not above a ¼ of an inch deep; too
thick both in the drawing & section, and in the 4foil above,
D it is not left; The filleting of the cusp excessively
shallow, almost a line It is strange that one cusp should be
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