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                                                                      103					74
                                                                      
                                                                      		      No 55, 56, 57              58, 59
                                                                      				 CAPITALS
                                                                      		Q Doge’s palace upper arcade.  R. from 12th house,
                                                                      No 55.  G. Great Foscari, from No 56  T. Ca’ d’Oro from
                                                                      No 16.
                                                                      		Compare with D plinth of church near M. D’Orto No 50
                                                                      D. is the beautiful window of Abbazia
                                                                      U. Early Lombard from St Marks No 57.
                                                                      This capital is one of the small arcade which runs along
                                                                      under the great screen, with a bit of its arabesque
                                                                      above, but it is much effaced by time and werar of
                                                                      crowd:  The rude projection of its leafage is merely a
                                                                      form of bad cutting.
                                                                      E 2 Fondaco de Turchi No 58-59 on the latter leaf;
                                                                      the head is the real size of the on the inner side of my
                                                                      red column Doge’s Palace showing its placing in cavetto
                                                                      A. profile of the pillar on the right of No 58 seen on
                                                                      its angle.
                                                                      V.     Abacus from Duono Varona No 3.
                                                                      W.     Lombard from Milan, No 2.
                                                                      Now I think in all three, I can distinguish:  first
                                                                      the bell proper:  either square or round headed:  of
                                                                      the profile a opposite in   A B B2 abd pergaps D. and
                                                                      of profile b in C E2 and F and perhaps I   Then
                                                                      consider this bell becoming c opposite in K.G.H.M.
                                                                      and W.   vide p 77.

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