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                                                                      			  CA D’ORO TRACERIES FIRST STORY
                                                                      		to show the arrangement of the dentils:  b above c below
                                                                      the capital:  the two on the left, with their intermediate
                                                                      ornament fo right round the whole window, as a square
                                                                      border, through curiously involved;  they are seen in
                                                                      the section E. of No 17 another dental appears in the
                                                                      section b here;  this goes round the ogee arch, and is
                                                                      the dentil marked d c in section A of No 17 while
                                                                      a b there is the large dentil e f of section E:  The
                                                                       square line round section a is the abacus head: which
                                                                      has a slight excess over the pilasters as seen in the
                                                                      sections b c of No 23.
                                                                      		The smaller window is executed with precisely the same
                                                                      tracery as the others:  onlythe cusps, ihstead of being
                                                                      merely filleted, are cut clear through and left as open
                                                                      bands;  the same bands join the head in the centre of the
                                                                      4 foil like notre dame, but the head is most rudely cut;
                                                                      The second roll which forms the central tracery bars
                                                                      is carried through the figure A. opposite melting truly
                                                                      into bars into itself at the junctions.  The stonework is
                                                                      not cut open either in the spaces a or b.  The other
                                                                      drawing on No 23 is of course the true contour.
                                                                      Gothic schools of Venice.
                                                                      		Beginning with pure Byzantine domestic;  we have the
                                                                      stilted round arch: and St Marks flanking arches, all alik
                                                                      ecclesiastical and civil.  with basket capitals.  Then

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[Version 0.05: May 2008]