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                                                                      Leaf cornices.  May not all these Venetian ones be traced back to the
                                                                      		cornice they seem so to have loved - of Murano and that
                                                                      		which rounds their circular arches;  and thus back to
                                                                      		antiquity;  It takes a refined form under the balusters
[drawing]                                                             		of St Marks;  and thus appears at once in its typical form
                                                                      		on 14th century tombs: and so becomes morbid on the church
                                                                      		doors;  falling back again almost to a pure early form in
                                                                      		some renaissance buildings or the door of the arsenal.
                                                                      		 (where by the bye the capitals are  I think a sharp
                                                                      		Byzantine imitation of Corinthian)  Observe how short I
                                                                      		am of the definite 13th and early 14th century palaces.
                                                                      		Their sculptured shafts are so often of the Bon kind.
                                                                      		q.  The narrow cusped Miracoli one - and  Campo della
                                                                      		Bragola - and at Arsenal 1300 and odd.
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                                                                      		the junction with the front part of it which looks of
                                                                      		the old time, with the pilaster head which is certainly
                                                                      		though somewhat more curled and cared for in the cutting
                                                                      		of the time and design of the massy capitals of upper central inner
                                                                      		arcade;  The arch thrown across is of the moulding of those
                                                                      		inner arches;  the bold ogee;  and it very singularly cuts
                                                                      		into the dentiled cornice a b opp;  which runs along
                                                                      		top of those arches:  p q is across outer arcade, p q2
                                                                      		across inner, q p2 is body of palace, which is

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