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(S. Croce 1041-1057, Nadali & Vianello (1999) Tav. 16) Strope (Cpl. de le). See Works, 10.311 Plate XVIII Windows of the Fifth Order.
At Works, 10.310 Ruskin states ‘I have given in Plate 18 examples of the fifth-order window, both in its earliest and in its fully developed form, completed from base to keystone. The upper example is a beautiful group from a small house, never of any size or pretension, and now inhabited only by the poor, in the Campiello della Stope, close to the Church of San Giacomo de Lorio’ See also Notebook M2 p.78 ‘Note the shortened dentils above the joint, they are 5 and diamond above, 12 below, and rather flat, section at A. p 47 l. careful: note the interval of fat between dentil and chamfer no wider than dentil. The flat of cusp trefoil is rough chiselled The cusp entirely lost in soffit above the joint, and for fill six inches above abacus. The shaft head B. a beautifully cut pure R. like Sagredo balcony’
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