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SAN GREGORIO CHURCH
smaller roll in the general effect. All the rolls
harmoniously and thoroughly cut and harmonized. though
the design of thetracery of the lower windows, fig 2
is awkward and ungraceful, it is thoroughly precise
and scientific in workmanship. The moss cusps are
Cusps curious, and may be studied for their fine upper line a b
opposite or as a2 b2 neaerer; yet how inferior
this to the simple curve of true Gothic, a3 b3 The 4
foil at top of all is unusually open in foils. Observe a
mistake in fig 2 the deep recess within the third tier of
bricks is entirely missed and the stone is represented as
coming to the first order of brickwork when it reaches no
farther than the second as in the other window: The
section of this pilaster head, for such it is: (there being
no correspondent cornice to the joints of the pillars
in the centre, is the early one C. of book: and the whole o[k]
of the a[r]rchitecture is very early: and must yet it has
points of the closest correspondence with both the foscari
and the Ca d(Oro on the one hand; which assuredly
it is contemporary with the Frari on the other. Note
also that the flatness of he circle on which the cusps are
decsribed as at B opposite (?) the is perhaps an effect
of perspective. I believe it a true semicircle in both
upper and lower windows.
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