[M2.6L]                                                               [M2.6]									6
                                                                      				Capitals
                                                                      
For the coming in of these leaves, the house No 6                     Capitals continued.  In all these capitals founded on truncation the
Mercerie, most precious                                               		abaci are excessively rude [drawing] or [drawing] only
                                                                      		The next step  as to bend one of the lower fillets round:
                                                                      		so as to get a true bell: and to insert Ble or fe leaf
                                                                      		under the spiral of each angle:  and in shorter one at
A further advance upon the capital 4 A without altering               		each side:  with or without a rose above:  This capital
its family is to curve all its leaves:  This is done                  		I have called L:  It now becomes 4 A
in S.M. Mater domini Chessboard                                       		But 4. B.  No leaf is inserted under the spiral
Q. if the capital which I have called Byzantine B. is not             		But the spiral itself is turned into a leaf:  No which
a form of this, examine house in S.M.Mater D. on purpose              		lies down on itself after curling.  No intermediate
But observe also - a series of varieties of the capital               		leaf is given:  and the rose occurs in the centre of
4 A with a branch of leafage instead of a central leaf;               		the blank space.  This capital occurring early at
occurring as early as the Fondaco de Turchi No 36 fig 6.              		St Stefano.  I have called R.  Vid No 53 for R. and L.
worked out in La Scala monument No 5 fig 1  Give their                		together.
two capitals together observing in the Scala one;  the                	5.	Parallel with the R. capital, in San Stefano:  a
steps of advance;  the curling of the leaf extremities;               		leaf is found with the reversed lobe, very rich (one
the setting in of rose, the rounding of all the surfaces              		origin of the most luxuriant capitals) No 30.
and delicate undercutting.  In my drawings the earlier                	6.	A massy leaf capital touching abacus with point.
capital looks quite as good. but it is far inferior in                		Bacon palace and several of the Doges.  No 67 and 70
effect.                                                               		an amplification I think of that so often found in the
                                                                      		balustrade As No 8.

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