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CAMPO DE MIRACOLO HOUSE AT MURANO DUOMO
Unusual in such wondwos capital: of pure early 5th
in second story: on very early R. shafts: all with flat
c3 sec. finally in first story, 4ths with c on an exces-
sively quaint form of R. the rose a mere bud, not open,
though it is open above: and the leaves curled round but
(I think not filleted)
All the other figures on this p 33 G Book are of the beau-
tiful door of the house at the Miracolo. The finial
gives twice bottom and top: the ½ dentil real size;
General outline fig 2 with masonry Savab section fig 3 in
which a-b is just across the width of the book open and
½ an inch more, fig 5 angle of cable curious while in
centre C it has a leaf. The archivolt section is most
carefully given at fig 4 and its profile fig 6
I never saw such sharp small dogteeth, three to each
gabled dentil and the gabled dentils so flat and outer
one so huge: All cut with the greatest precision, the larg
er dentil in red Verona marble. The finial looks as if
intended for a bracket
Duomo Murano p 51 Goth. book% A with b and c its sections a
moulding round the large bas relief of wreathed birds
and flowers of Aquleian or Byzantine work, built into the
outside end of the aisle. This moulding is all cut in a
piece with it: and is remarkable as an earlg form de-
rived from the Greek dentil; so that I must not
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