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169 137
ARCH MADONNA S M MATER DOMINI (ROMO DELLA CHEISA)
circle containing Foscari arms. (The opposite one had a
plain dentil) very interesting, showing perhaps the
real origin by a series of dentils interposed between
drops of ornament at p 14, and on brick doors otherwise
connected with true chap of Andrea Dandolo. Observe 19
diamonds in the circle.
Fig 4 the finial. The arch is seen on both sides, (and
if it be of Foscari turn certainly the Madonna is nearly
as stiff as anything on Ducal palace. The flower border
(note in sec 2 the moulding is plain only flowers in b)
is also rude - but much injured by time; the rose and
its stem is then as usual, but very short stemmed)
- not exactly same on both sides; for the two circles
instead of being in dentils are in rolls: and one instead
of the quartered lion has two plain roses of fig 5 pattern
How general the principle of truncating 4 foils and keep-
ing trefoils sharp, of course because the point of a 4 foil
is necessarily too sharp to be either strong or agreeable
P 33 G. book. Fig 1. is shaft head of third story of a house in
the Romo della Chiesa - just behind S. M. Mater Domini
This house, with others, may be named as an example of
very early pure 5th, in third story, on this
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