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L60 back of 127 162 128
inscription being MCCCCLV. Optime Jacobo Manroceno SAN GIOVANNI AND PAOLO
procurante, his sedil haec marmora sunt adjuncta Punfic tomb, and I strongly suspect Tedesc influence
So now we get it all pretty well together and Contarini later in their choir stalls: The date of Tabernacle in
fosaca as well. San Tuccania is 1443. It would be worth while to-morrow
making a note of a flamboyant boss at the Frari to compare
it with a St Mark’s ball. Note [Nots] what Selvatine says also of
St Marc, and of the dossale di Leguo of the Frari.
To-morrow, if pos% see this dossale at lateral door. Note
flamboyant door and niches. Dag. The tomb and so to St
Mark’s
No 108 Fig 3. This is I think the earliest occurrence of the leaf
with the curled lobe at top, it is the capital of one of
Another step forward from the curling of the upper lobe the nave piers of San Gio at Paolo It is very finely cut
is to put fruit inside of it, hold by it, a great mistake flowing and beautiful: and doubtless the Franciscan sculp-
leading to the whole heavy system of the late Venice tors thought it a[s] great step when they had changed the
Gothic. This is done if I mistake not in a very early rude sharp Byzantine cutting into that flowing leafage, of
instance in the columns supporting the first story of the which fig 5 is an expanded leaf: the idea being that this
house close to the Miracolo; when the door has the leaf should be set with its upper surface towards the
gabled dentil curiously introduced; and when; in the capital bell, and then head round, showing it rib outside
second story of the court there is a leaf capital of the at top: But the capital though far finer in workmanship
greatest lightn4ss and heavenly beauty, with a pair is far inferior in effect, to earlier ones: Observe its
of slender cusped 5th quite exquisite. simplicity all cut down from abacus: no circular bell set
This light leaf capital cutting ought to give me a day’s under while in the
studyit seems to spring from the early cut of Lombard
of J.M. Mater D.
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