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No 61. HOUSE IN CORTE DEL REMER
the , may set with a Titian like warmth and mystery
Campiello del Remer is the real name beside those bands of green - one prism of pure white
only shines in the point of one of these arches; but
all in the last stage of habitable ruin; the wind
whistles through the rotten door which protects the
recess to the Atrium, without flowers and broken flower
pots lie in heaps about the landing - and the rain from
the granite dripstone soaks into the miud and sand a
which has choked its pavement.
The carvings of the great arch fig 1 on the richest
I have yet seen on any arch of the kind, covering
both architrave and soffit Fig 1 No 61 is a careful
section; the cornice or dripstone of granite its ornament
seen beside it and note the stone is edged by the
which is in contact with the cement; Then the facing slabs
of white marble, cut in to animals and then soffit slabs
of which the edge is curiously archaic; being neither a
roll nor a square. Perhaps the most curious thing con-
nected with the arch is that while in both ornaments the
animals seem throughout to be kept within the intaglio
limit, yet, in the soffit wreath, two little beasts, one
on each side, who fill an angle of the leafage, have
one a paw, the other a claw, extended over the flattened r
roll at the angle: drawn upon it
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