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FRARI CHURCH OF
The sharpest points I have found of this order with the
rare a2 section are two windows in a small house beside the
Ponte dell ‘Arco, San G. in Bragona, one is drawn on the
brown leaf of the Palace book: Another, less sharp, is
in the Tana - behind arsenal.
Sea Gulls. It was lovely to see them in the grey darkness of
The snowy sky with the deep local green of the sea - the
dark canal reflected on their white under bodies in a
dim chrysoprase, opposed to the purply grey of their
These tombs are in the Chapel near volta sacra al backs. Their wings are edged with white in front and
Serafico One is unknown, the one with the heads, on the they were pausing conti[n]nually at one or two feet above
right is that of Duccio degli Alberti the Florentine, who the water, flapping their wings slowly like moths.
died in Venice in 1336. Bracket Ornament. In its most colossal form it occurs on a late door
in the interior of the transept of the Frari, the brackets
being some three inches or four wide.
Gabled Dentil: I was surprised to find this ornament used in both
the early tombs which I have described in the Frari, on
their cornices; as well as very flat on the beautiful ear-
ly door near the Post Office - and on the 4th order windows
in the house in the Campo St Margherita: when the door
much later evidently than that at Post Office, has a
scutcheon
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