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[HB2.34L]                                                             [HB2.34]							34
                                                                      [Madonna dell Orto - continued]
[diagram]  C  [central west window of Madonna dell Orto]              
                                                                      [diagram] Archivolt and jamb   Shaft		[diagram]
			[drawing]                                                          
                                                                      				[diagram] B    in great low niches
                                                                      
					[diagram]                                                        				[diagram] A    above for greater
					upper 4 foil                                                     						interval
                                                                      
                                                                      [diagram]	Observe. in all
                                                                      		the small tracery
                                                                      		openings the section
                                                                      		A. is used, to mark
                                                                      		them larger. but
                                                                      		in the trefoiled larger
                                                                      		arches B.
                                                                      		At C. opposite is shown
                                                                      	         the treatment of the
                                                                      	        two 4 foil branches
                                                                      	       on the left. note that
                                                                      	       all their interstices are
                                                                      	      bits of a hypothetical
                                                                      continuation of the tracery, cut off by
                                                                      the archivolt tracery -a most singular system
                                                                      running through all Venice. But at C. though
                                                                      the lower member of the 4 foil is large enough
                                                                      to have a cut through it by law of the
                                                                      tracery - it is left filled up. as too small to
                                                                      be pierced - (Perhaps this a piece of restoration)

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