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[M.81L] [M.81]
Campiello del Remer is the real name No 61 House in Corte del Remer 81
them, may set with a Titian like warmth & mystery beside those
bands of green - one prism of pure white only shines in
the point of one of these arches; but all in the last stage
of habitable ruin; the wind whistles through the rotten
door which protects the access to the Atrium, without
flowers and broken flowerpots lie in heaps about
the landing - and the rain from the granite dripstone
soaks into the mud and sand which has choked
its pavement.
The carvings of the great arch - fig 1 are the richest
I have yet seen on any arch of the kind, covering both
architrave & soffit Fig 1 No 61 is a careful section; the
cornice or dripstone of granite its ornament seen beside it
and note the stone is edged by the [diagram] which
is in contact with the cement; Then the facing slabs of
white marble, cut in to animals and then soffit slabs
of which the edge is curiously archaic; being neither a roll
nor a square. Perhaps the most curious thing connected with
the arch is that while in both ornaments the animals seem
throughout to be kept within the intaglio limit, yet, in the
soffit wreath, two little beasts, one on each side, who fill
an angle of the leafage, have one a paw, the other a
claw, extended over the flattened roll at the angle: drawn upon it
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[Version 0.05: May 2008]