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THE VENETIAN DOGTOOTH
form of the dentil resulted from the ultimate chiselling
away of the edge of the slab of overlaid stone: The
Dogtooth - a form hardly les[f]s influential at Venice; and
for more extended in its use elsewhere: resulted from a
process still more simple: It is in the early examples
merely a hacked angle a opp. This ornament is constant
in timber architecture: as in the Swiss cottage: and
it is used variously on the timbers of modern boats
at Venice, in the form b.
In its first architectural form, I find it in the
most interesting windows at p 9 Gothic book, clerestory
lights rather, which are perched above the top of every
aisle window in St John and Paul: The sub arch decoration
I have only met with to-day, at the Frari and here -
8th January, we have I before met with this form of the dog
tooth: The stilting of the string in the middle of the
arch is curius - to be noted with other rudenesses of
the same kind: and observe here also, the very simplest
form of capital: the pilaster with its ordinary moulding,
mere twisted round and flattened under the abacus.
It is altogether rude base and all - a most precious
example of early work. The top of the nave pier arch with
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