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[M.125L] [M.125] Byzantine Friezes 125
Porches. In speaking of them generally note Willis’s strange assertion
[diagram] of none in Italian Gothic - after just before naming
Manga p 122, 123. Compare Giotto’s first plan of Florence
Doors. passages about their preservation p 113. I find here on the
contrary they are always altered or later than rest.
Things to be done Note remark at p 119 Willis about lost succession of orders and
connect this with the peculiar luxuriance of the Venetian
Gothic under, I presume the Bons. different from all
other places.
Look for Shafted imposts. noted at p 119.
Byzantine Friezes. The fine cornice of the Riva del Carbon occurs
in a beautiful continuous piece of a house standing on detached
pillars on the canal close to the church of the Miracoli
beyond the Palazzo Sanuto, the house above has been
restored - but a Romanesque cross and six or seven
animal niches, are built into the side of it: and in its
windows remain two beautiful shafts of red Verona
Marble, with the early truncated head [diagram]: A
brick arch in the back of a house close by is remarkable
as attaining the ogee stilt in brick as at B. opp.
St John and Paul:
Of the Venetian Dog tooth
As we have seen that the most effective and valuable
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