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Notebook M p.187 ‘Casa Porta di Ferro Contarini Certainly the most graceful 14th century work I have found in Venice at p 63 Gothic book one of the arches of its balustrade, real size with one of the intermediate leafage groups, each foil of the spiral successively laid over the other some half an inch deep & beautifully modulated’
Works, 11.368 Venetian Index. ‘Palazzo Porto di Ferro Contarini.’ ‘In the interior court is a beautiful remnant of staircase, with a piece of balcony at the top, cira 1350 one of the most richly and carefully wrought in Venice’. Near the church of St John & Paul.
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