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[M.44L] [M.44]
No 19, 20, 21, 22 Church of Frari. Ca d'Oro 44
field of snow was seen on their summits - though untouched by light,
No 20 to 22, inclusive, describe the nave pillars of St Marks. and all grim and wild against the sky: But at the end of
21 being a rough sketch of their effect from the nave in the range - right over Murano; we being on the quay of the
about true perspective; all but diameter of shaft, which Jesuiti, burning crests of snow were seen mingled among bars
it is easy to correct from the measures. of cloud and gaps of sky: relieved against grey sea cloud
behind - The sun was seen setting, - the calm space of sky
changed not - the clouds, as motionless as the hills - and as
defined - held up their waved curtains from off the field
of gold; and the dark mountain chain, countless in its serrations
and gathering together of pointed peaks, lay as sharp and shattered
against the amber air, as if it had been a mass of near
Highland hills.
Pinnacle Foliation. Church of the Frari.
Note in the pinnacles of the great (west?) door the pannel fleur de lys
foliation, drawn in no. looking like some of the abortions
of dying Gothic in France: Yet this, here, is evidently a
modification of the Byzantine or Lombard double arch,
so often found in St Mark’s, as on the left of my elaborate
drawing: and again in the curious Byzantine palace down
the grand canal near Rialto. Find out origin and application
of this.
No 23. Fig 1. a - b - c elevation and tracery of the third, or small
intermediate window of Ca d’Oro. The sections b- c are nearly
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