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26. Great pointed arch of Frari Cloister.

27. Unique thirds, Ducal Palace.

28. Inner cortile, pointed arches, Ducal Palace.

29. Common fourth and fifth order archivolt.

30. Unique thirds, Ducal Palace.

31. Ducal Palace, lower arcade.

PLATE 9,32. Casa Priuli, arches in the inner court.

Vol. III.33. Circle above the central window, Ducal Palace.

34. Murano apse.

35. Acute-pointed arch, Frari.

36. Door of Accademia delle belle Arti.

37. Door in Calle Tiossi, near Four-Evangelist House.

38. Door in Campo San Polo.

39. Door of palace at Ponte Marcello.

40. Door of a palace close to the Church of the Miracoli.

(v.) CORNICES

Plate 10 represents, in one view, the cornices or string-courses of Venice, and the abaci of its capitals, early and late; these two features being inseparably connected, as explained at p. 147, Vol. I.

The evidence given by these mouldings is exceedingly clear. The two upper lines in the Plate, 1-11, 12-24, are all plinths from Byzantine buildings. The reader will at once observe their unmistakable resemblances. The row 41 to 50 are contemporary abaci of capitals; 52, 53, 54, 56, are examples of late Gothic abaci; and observe, especially, these are all rounded at the top of the cavetto, but the Byzantine abaci are rounded, if at all, at the bottom of the cavetto (see 7, 8, 9, 10, 20, 28, 46). Consider what a valuable test of date this is, in any disputable building.

Again, compare 28, 29, one from St. Mark’s, the other from the Ducal Palace, and observe the close resemblance, giving further evidence of early date in the palace.

25 and 50 are drawn to the same scale. The former is the wall-cornice, the latter the abacus of the great shafts, in the Casa Loredan; the one passing into the other, as seen in Fig. 28, p. 149, Vol. I. It is curious to watch the change in proportion, while the moulding, all but the lower roll, remains the same.

The following are the references:

1. Common plinth of St. Mark’s.

2. Plinth above lily capitals, St. Mark’s.

3, 4. Plinths in early surface Gothic.

5. Plinth of door in Campo St. Luca.

6. Plinth of treasury door, St. Mark’s.

PLATE 10,7. Archivolts of nave, St. Mark’s.

Vol. III.8. Archivolts of treasury door, St. Mark’s.

9. Moulding of circular window in St. John and Paul.

10. Chief decorated narrow plinth, St. Mark’s.

11. Plinth of door, Campo St. Margherita.

12. Plinth of tomb of Doge Vital Falier.

13. Lower plinth, Fondaco de’ Turchi, and Terraced House.

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