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95 68
No 47. CA GIUSTINIANI
in fig F. which is a perspective sketch of head of window,
showing the 4 foil G perspective sketch of lower arches
of tracery with their curious finials: showing the plain
filleted not trefoiled cusp and use of section B .
Observe in a the flattened semicircle going round
tracery as at Ca d’Oro, and in G. the strange pilaster
head; or rather half shaft head; (there are the first
half shafts I have met with) whose leafage is florid
in feeling; but bluntly and coldly cut, and the head
vilely; the base of this ½ shaft (also that of the whole
central arcade) is seen below: I suspect restoration.
Traceries Fig 2. Traceries of central arcade: of third or principal
story: The sections A and B at arch head and through cusp
of the lower arch, C, were drawn with great care: singu-
lar for both their flat wide, half labelled cavette and
their deep half le[v]velled roll. Exactly the reverse, as we shall see presently, of the Pisani C. cusp of main arch:
how curiously different from Danieli’s: in its parallelism
for so long a line; though the filletleft is not above a
¼ of an inch deep; too think both in the drawing and
section, and in the 4 foil above, D it is not left;
The filleting of the cusp excessively shallow, almost a
line It is strange that one cusp should be
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