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[M.94L] [M.94]
No 70 Ducal Palace. Traceries 94
Having now finished the exam. of the four traceried windows
of the D. Palace, I shall fill up in order what is to be
noted of them.
The First - let be that on the side of the palace towards prisons, and
furthest from the sea. This window now belongs to the Camera
di Studio.
1 The tracery. No 70 Now Place 41 fig 1 showing intersections of great roll
- most curious. Do what I would, I could not from its
Put into chapter on ledge, see the filling of the [diagram] space, but I think it
masonry. is filled up by the moulding - solid stone. The parts coloured
and compare the most curious treatment red are cut clean: and I was excessively puzzled by the position
of joint in fig 1 plate 42 large. of the joint - the cusp is not solid as in the other windows and
2 the point certainly strikes it as at fig 2; and there is
no joint at the cusp point - nor could I see any joint in cusp.
except a crack at a fig 2 - it is a great puzzle.
The rose, which fills the [diagram] overlaps the tracery as shown
by dotted line in sect fig 3.
The jamb section - archivolt sec. and tracery are the same as in
the other side window, or second - only its two half shafts have
the small truncated processes which end the cavattos of their spirals
3 rounded instead of cut short off - [diagram] instead of [diagram]
Its but in the central shaft it is cut off as in the
others. Its capitals have the leaves turned over back as
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