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[M.157L] [M.157] Frari. Tombs and Screen 157
[diagrams] roses, on the whole one of the best executed for its statues
and all in Venice Note in all these sarcophagi, plan, first
Mode of trefolation, de d, the side [?]. e, the a and b horizontal with leaf plinths and finally c shelled
front under the Foscari tomb. the leaf plinth following always.
Tomb of Giustiniani: another plain sarcophagus with a
sharp early plinth double lobed - and archaic stiff madonna
a little earlier perhaps, or worse worked than earliest doge’s
palace - Gabled dentil on Brackets below, which are
more luxuriant than the rest, small angels drawing
curtains on each side of Madonna or ringed rods.
Tomb of Foscari. All the grossest Bonism: figures without hands
- Effigy vile: Leafage luxuriant. Virtues classical: water
still in vase: Trefoliation as opp.
Screen of the Frari: In stone, with a cross above, & brackets to carry
figures, all luxuriant: and of the style of inner arcade of Porta
della Carta. It bears date 1475. Good sculpture in heads:
but pilaster shafts capitals with cherub heads and [?] bracket
moulding below - along plinth like Bernado and other late
palaces. This bracket door of the Giustiniani &c occurs also
in the palazzo Bernado at St Polo, but I think later than
upper part of palace.
The enormous brackets of foliage which hold the reading desks -
"ambones"! in the Frari, are farther examples of the spirit of accumu-
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[Version 0.05: May 2008]