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[DB.33L]                                                              [DB.33]							33
                                                                      
[Madonna dell’ Orto]                                                  No. 33			House No
                                                                      		Of Madon . del Orto.
[drawing] a b c d 2 x q k                                             
                                                                      Type. opp. its three leaf crockets are without
		this plinth late. cinque                                            	figures. flat cut. wonderfully
			cento                                                              	following in their flatness. & very luxurious
		     the upper earlier                                              	& fine. but thoroughly vulgar.
                                                                      Masonry		Leaves on cable  no figures
                                                                      			except at   a.  b.  c
[diagram] m n4  n3  m2  n...k2...a    meeting spread                  Archivololt Breadth    6 a full sized St Christopher
                                                                      			(better than [evangelist  bust?] )
				This section taken very carefully.                                
				the changed direction of its                                      Archivolt Section
				lines at n2 .n3 going acute                                       	The black lines are leaf plinths
				< at n2. and the steepest incut -                                       	carried continuously across & up
                                                                      	The moulding  d. goes round arch
				[diagram]	[runs onto p. 33]                                       		and down side of door
                                                                      Jamb Section      stopped by the plinth only
                                                                      		within above a vile  [?]
                                                                      		   fluted shell - beastly
                                                                      		      the spiral shafts  k. on which
                                                                      		          the plinth projects hexagonally
                                                                      Pil Head.	must have carried something else
                                                                      make a [?] here coincide with a below. and
                                                                      [?] the whole section  x y.  at k and y are
                                                                      the two double spirals  marked   k2 and y2
                                                                      
                                                                      chamfer I ever saw at at n4
                                                                         all marking a late and
                                                                           debased time
                                                                      
                                                                      [from p. 33L] [diagram] y2
                                                                      
                                                                      				they are the kind
                                                                      				of [diagram] with leaf
                                                                      				at point
                                                                      				used in
                                                                      				the Frari and
                                                                      				undecorated
                                                                      				in the Ca d O’ro
                                                                      -but this is entirely later work
                                                                      The lower flower plinth, marked l, is

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