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No 114 MURANO DUOMO HOUSE AT MURANO
as I once thought, deduce it entirely from the chipped
alab: Figs 2m, 3 Section and profile of one of the
capitals of lower story of apse There are however more
Two or three of the capitals are in red marble. graceful ones than this: In 2 the concave line is the
bell and convex flower work - at the angle, at the side
it would be as at 5, or perhaps more correctly 6.
Of course no undercutting: 4 is leaf a of capital
more accurate. Note these caps are browned or dis-
coloured down to their point - though of marble. The
shafts are the purest white Fig 1 is their base as far
as the wear admits of its outline being felt. It has no
angle leaves: the mouldings are circular down to p, and
stand on the plain square plinth below.
House at Murano p 53 1 Goth book. Tracery of larger right hand window:
A tracery bar and cusps. B. archivolt the rest explains
itself only note the archa[i]ic and ugly setting of cusp:
and the entire and long coincidence of foils with smaller
roll. The cavetto in tracery bar should perhaps be a
little deeper: and the cusp a little wider, to give
thickness to the bar: The circle in middle of 4 foil
carries a shield it projects a little above the cusps, be-[i]
ing held as opposite fig 1.
How different the ungraceful cusp pinned on to the curve
as it were, from the scymitar one at page 48 1.
No 114. gives the windows looking to the garden, at the back of this
same
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