[M.127L] [M.127] Frari. Woodwork of. 127 its uppermost dentils is seen in position below: the section of the chopped moulding conjectionally at b: (I could not get near enough to be sure) and then would be from 45 to 50 chops on the outermost moulding at a and about 12 on each side the acute arches. Compare with this the elaborate late use of the dogt. on the Scala tombs: to which Prout has given so fine effect & so go on, to the Cornice here - which themselves are a mere open worked chopped angle, and the elaborate dogtooth on plane surfaces of later times. Compare also the pseudo or bevelled dogtooth at p 4 Gothic book. Flamboyant arch: Observe form adopted in stalls of Frari. p 6 Gothic book: a round boss - cut into flamboyant tracery. in fact, one of the balls of St Marks, only cut into flamboyant arches instead of leaves: See in all things how the Italian flamboyant is base, from being founded on early forms: but by Venice and its lagoons to Marco del fu Gianpietro compare what I have said about Milan. da Vicenza in 1468. It quotes inscription on right hand as This stall work is given by Selvatico to 1475, and one goes in "Mare Q Joh Petri D Vicentia fec Hoc Op. it is curious that its crocketing is more chaste than 1468" Selvatico has been misled by the inscription on that of the Pacific tomb, 1437: Note what Selva says the frieze of the "prospetto dell coro" which is 1475. the in his ignorance about Tedescan artists at p 148. vid next page - for if ever there was anything purely Italian it is that
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