Chapter CXLIII: Section XXXVI: I have called the sculpture on the Fig-tree angle the

principal one; because it is at the central bend of the palace, where it turns to the Piazetta (the facade upon the Piazetta being, as we saw above, the more important one in ancient times). The great capital, which sustains this Fig-tree angle, is also by far more elaborate than the head of the pilaster under the Vine angle, marking the preeminence of the former in the architect's mind. It is impossible to say which was first executed, but that of the Fig-tree angle is somewhat rougher in execution, and more stiff in the design of the figures, so that I rather suppose it to have been the earliest completed.