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                                                                      No 136.
                                                                      
                                                                      Palazzo Priuli.  Vid p 195 M.  Its main door has been perhaps the most
                                                                      		interesting in Venice, opening on the quay of San Severo
                                                                      		A square one, massy plinthed with a cch; exactly in
                                                                      		type like that at the Miracoli turning its angle precisely
                                                                      		as fig 5 p 33 Gothic book but with a bold and rich
                                                                      		leaf in the centre of lintel is surmounted by an arch
                                                                      		carried on a short jamb;  fig 1 No 136 The spandrils have
                                                                      		had two lions now broken away  very spirited.  Fig 2
                                                                      		is the jamb section, unique as far as I have seen, in
                                                                      		the one sided steepness of dentil.  Above the capital,
                                                                      		the roll r. divides into two and then the outer group
                                                                      		of mouldings forms the square:  dentil outside
                                                                      		and roll inside, and the inner the archivolt cutting off
                                                                      		the great roll S, which in the jamb is a spiral the
                                                                      		same as Doge palace tracery;  and has carried above
                                                                      		its capital a tracery {probably} of great beauty, now
                                                                      		torn away and plastered up:  The dotted line fig 2 is the
                                                                      		roll at the root of the capital fig 3 the base of the jamb
                                                                      		whose section would be [drawing]
                                                                      		the insertion of the lower roll into the dentil hollow
                                                                      		is curious, fig 4 capital abacus plan fig 5 general
                                                                      		look of the leafy banded capital.
                                                                      		The important angle window daguerreotyped is remarkable
                                                                      		first for its two dentils side by side, down by its small

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