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[HB1.44L]                                                             [HB1.44]							44
                                                                      
It is not a little curious that this                                  House No 37. Continued.
roll should thus be doubled at the side.                              
			and fused at the top                                               Angle	 : note its base . opposite . curious
	[diagram]	I have rarely                                              Door	- Much look of Pisani time about
			seen this except                                                   		carvings of main Capitals: ; and
			 at Amiens:                                                        Water Story	- its upper cornice is supported
			never in late work.                                                		by lions heads instead of plain Brackets
			Balcony tracery.                                                   								cornice
                                                                      		and is assuredly of the Renaissance Pisani  ^
[drawing]	[diagram]	[diagram]                                         	time the cornice at least. I cannot say
                                                                      		the lions heads
                                                                      		     The main capitals are especially like Pisani
                                                                      		      in the smallness of the abacus -
                                                                      1st Story -
                                                                      	Observe. There is a tabernacle in
                                                                      	the small Gothic vaulted chapel
                                                                      	of San Zaccaria which has very
                                                                      	nearly the flamboyant pattern of
                                                                      	these balconies. it bears date fortunately
                                                                      	about which there is no doubt 11
                                                                      					1443


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