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No 111. CA GRANDIBAR
it, Can this indeed be an early tracery: It is in point
of bounding the stonework by moulding, more scientific
thah that of Mad. Dell Orto in style it corresponds
much more with the Servi, fig 1 No 108 (one of the windows
left in the body of the church - observe the pilaster
which once carried the removed and deeply to be regretted
tracery) and is this chamfer and foll the origin of that
Note the bit from Doge palace capitals in Istrian stone employed afterwards so properly in the domestic Gothic.
used constantly for pubbricke, for common work. The beautiful palace near Arsenal of which the shafts with
rich intermediate Byzantine birds are dagued. has over
its door the shield opposite - its back door at least
The other stone found by Mr Brown for me the old leading into "Cal[,]le[l] Grandibe" doubtless the arms of
Sculptor colle pietra di Porto chieto and guilto in Istria the Grandiben family (heaps of money) who are mentioned
and called in Venice pietra Bandia. in Mr Brown’s note to
House No 77 Grotesque of pilaster: its effect is not that
Grotesque intended by sculptor - the whites should all be darker
and it would then be much poorer, but the scales of it are
very clever: the man must have been a kind of Agassiez,
and the fire at the gill radiates like La Scala crests and
Titian’s wing. Note, this gill goes into a hollow
in the stone, the head being for the rest, - cut flat by
incisions into the square base of the spiral chamfer.
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