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                                                                      		    FRARI   WOOD WORK OF
                                                                      its upper most dentils is seen in position below:  the
                                                                      section of the chopped moulding conjectionally at b:  (I
                                                                      could not get near enough to be sure) and then would be
                                                                      from 45 to 50 chops on the outermost moulding at a and abou
                                                                      12 on each side the acute arches.
                                                                      Compare with this the elaborate    lare use of the dogt:
                                                                      on the Scala tombs:  to which Prout has given so fine
                                                                      effect and so go on, to the Cornice here - which them-
                                                                      selves we a mere open worked chapped angle, and the
                                                                      elaborate dogtooth on plane surfaces of later lines.
                                                                      Compare also the pseudo or bevelled dogtooth at p 4
                                                                      Gothic book.
                                                                      Flamboyant arch:  Observe form adopted in stalls of Frari p 6
                                                                      Gothic book: a round boss, cut into flamboyant tracery
                                                                      in fact, one of the balls of St Marks, only cut into flam-
                                                                      boyaht arches instead of leaves:  See in all things how
                                                                      the Itlian flamboyant is base, from being founded on early
                                                                      forms:  compare what I have said about Milan.
                                                                      This stall work is given by Selvatic to 1475, and it is
but by Venice and its lagoons to Marco del fu Gianpietro              curious that its crocketing is more chaste than that of
da Vicenna in 1468.  It quotes inscription on right hand              the Pacific tomb, 1437:  Note what Selva says in his igno-
as one goes in "Mare Q Ich Petri D Vicentia fec Hoc Op                rance about Sediscan artists at p 148 - for if ever
1468"  Selvatico has been misled by the inscription on                there was anything purely Italian it is that
the frieze of the "prospetto dell coro" which is 1475
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[Version 0.05: May 2008]