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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
                                                                                   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 renai[s]ssance buildings or the door of the arsenal.
                                                                      (where by the bye the capitals are  I think ajsharp
                                                                      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 t[e]he 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 massyapitals of upper 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 a[l]l[o]ong
                                                                      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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