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[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.
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