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No 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29. CHURCH OF FRARI
AND SAN G AND P.
the Byzantine modified by point, and altered in tracery
Then and then - I want the ear[s]liest
case of foliation - then there is a great guph - which
I cannot cross.
Question 1st. Examine the windows 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 b[s]reaks off
abruptly - or q does the second current of Gothic fall
in and sweep it away.
Again, the churches of San G and Paolo and the Frari are
of[a]nn ancient and barbarous gothic - associated with
Verona and the Lombards; with delicate but flat
Lombard capitals: Now note that the arch section of the
Frari have - rudely drawn on No 24, is precisely the same
as the window section of the house in No 1 , How strange
if this should be the correspondent ecclesias[t]tical period.
There must howver have been foreign architects - this
builders of those Byzantine houses never could have
borne the rude shaft, interfered of the Frari.
Foliation. With thisstyle, foliation is rapidly associated, vide
drawing of upper and lower window of the apse of the
Frari, No 25. But where did this skill in vaulting
Question nd and in foliation come from 2
C[V]onsider also, this bold vaulting without external buttres
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