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175			back of 141                                                     176			142
                                                                      
		First story of Fasetti. p 53 1 &c    it is composed of pair         			   CA FARSETTI
of shafts with stilted arches of a2 section:  the eleva-              		the added left hand moulding place the point p continue
tion of a pair of shafts with masonry above at fig 9 the              section up and it is the house angle above the cornice
rolls being of red marble:  the rest of Istrian stone, or             the section d p being put here to bring it within paper.
marble painted.  There is something suspicious to me about            Then:  on the opposite pag[f]e:  I is horizontal section
these arches, the masonry under the roll looks common and o           at a the stilted arches worked with underlaid slabs
modern:  if old, they are the highest stilted arches                  round edged:   (? Has an outer roll been removed in
with 2 a that I have yet f[r]ound.  The shafts are                    r[t]estorations)  2 Section on the line, b showing the
placed enturely clear, two arches nearly out from                     curious little double ordered archivolt - all out in from
the block plaster behind them:  the capital of both shafts            the flat surface of thepanel   3 section through c show-
is a block resting on the pilaster and receiving the shaft            ing incision of triangular line, and the little back
briding the i[n]nterval;  fig 10 is a plan:  the thick                of the archivolt, and the small capital through its side.
line of the bottom of the capital under the roll, the dottd           4 the same small capital, larger.  5, base of small shaft,
lines of pilaster and shafts, only plaster should be deeper           showing how it projects over the panel mouldings with go
Fig 7 & 8 are profiles 7 of the plain shaft head of the               entirely round:  and as they come between the small
narrower side arches, 8 of the ugly and rude head utterly             archivolts, and the roll of the great cornice, so they
barbarous of the central arches:  vid daguerre.  The bases            come  between the small archivolts, and the roll of
are the same as on ground floor, and have had the same                the great cornice, so they come between the small bases,
continuous plinth now broken away.  Fig 11 is, as well as             and the roll of the great base.  This great base is just
I could see the flat cornice on top of first story                    as continuous as the great cornice, forming a plinth, and
On page 149, 1 are measures taken on one of central arches            plain bases to shafts as in fondaco de Turchi.  Only
                                                                      here, there are no leaves at the angles, plain circular
                                                                      mouldings on square plinth, fig 6 p 53 1  it is impossible
                                                                      therefore to have a simpler arrangement,  I may almost begin
                                                                      with it. and the curious furrowed system and equal levels o[f]
                                                                      the omouldings make it highly interesting.  The other figue[r]
                                                                      at p 53 are of upper, first story, Vid o[p]pp.

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