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FRARI TOMBS AND SCREEN
roses, on the whole one of the best executed for its
statues and all in Venice Note in all these sarco-
phagi plan, first a and b horizontal with leaf plinths
and finally c shelled the leaf plinth following always
Tomb of Giustucianio: another plain sarcophagus with a sharp
early plinth double lobed - and archaic stiff madonna
a little earlier perhaps, or worse worked than earliest
doge’s palace - Gabled dentil on Brackets below, which
are more luxuriant than the rest, small angels drawing
curtains on each side of Madonna or ringed rods.
Tomb of Foscari. All the grossest Bonism: figures without
hands - Effigy vile: Leafage luxuriant - Virtues classical
water still in vase: Trefoliation as opp.
Screen of the Frari: In stone, with a cross above, and
brackets to carry figures, all luxuriant: and of the style
of inner arcade of Ponto della Centa - It bears date
1475 Good sculpture in heads: but pilaster capitals with
cherub heads and bracket moulding below - along plinth
like Bernado and other late palaces. This bracket
door of the Giustinari &c occurs also in the palazzo
Bernado at St Paolo but I think later than upper part
of palace.
The enormous brackets of foliage which hold the reading
desks - "ambones"! the Frari, are further examples of the spirit of accumu
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