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[M.132L] [M.132] Frari, Church of 132
4th Order: The sharpest points I have found of this order
windows with the rare a2 section are two windows in a
small house beside the Ponte dell ‘Arco, San G. in
Bragora. one is drawn on the brown leaf of the
Palace book: Another, less sharp, is in the
Tana - behind arsenal.
Sea Gulls. It was lovely to see them in the grey darkness of
the snowy sky with the deep local green of the
sea - the dark canal - reflected on their white under
bodies in a dim chrysoprase, opposed to the purply
These tombs are in the Chapel una volta sacra al Serafico grey of their backs. Their wings are edged with
One is unknown, the one with the heads, on the right white in front and they were pausing continually
is that of Duccio degli Alberti the Florentine, who died at one or two feet above the water, flapping their
in Venice in 1336. wings slowly like moths.
Bracket Ornament. In its most colossal form it occurs on
a late door in the interior of the transept of the Frari, the brackets
being some three inches or four wide.
Gabled Dentil: I was surprised to find this ornament used
in both the early tombs which I have described in
the Frari, on their cornices; as well as very flat
on the beautiful early door near the Post Office.
- and on the 4th order windows in the house in the
Campo St Margherita: where the door, much later
evidently than that at Post Office, has a scutcheon
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[Version 0.05: May 2008]