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[M.46L] [M.46]
No 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29. Church of the Frari 46
& San G. and P.
the Byzantine modified by point, and altered in tracery
[diagram]: Then [diagram]: and then - I want the earliest case of
foliation - then there is a great gulph. which I cannot cross.
Question 1st. Examine the windows [diagram] with a view to this: noting
house described in No 19. Once this gulph passed; one goes
on to the Doges’ palace - but into what did the doge’s palace die?
It breaks off abruptly - or q. does the second current of Gothic
fall in & sweep it away.
Again, the churches of San G & Paolo and the Frari are of
an ancient & barbarous gothic - associated with Verona
and the Lombards; with delicate but flat Lombard
capitals: Now note that the arch section of the Frari
nave - rudely drawn on No 24, is precisely the same
as the window section of the house in No 19: How strange
if this should be the correspondent ecclesiastical period.
There must howver have been foreign architects - the
builders of those Byzantine houses never could have
borne the rude shaft, untapered of the Frari.
Foliation. With this style, foliation is rapidly associated, vide
drawing of upper & lower window of the apse of the
Frari, No 25. But where did this skill in vaulting
Question 2nd and in foliation come from?
Consider also, this bold vaulting without external buttress
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