[M.125L]                                                              [M.125]	Byzantine Friezes	125
                                                                      
                                                                      Porches.  In speaking of them generally note Willis’s strange assertion
[diagram]                                                             		of none in Italian Gothic - after just before naming
                                                                      		Manga p 122, 123.  Compare Giotto’s first plan of Florence
                                                                      Doors.  passages about their preservation p 113.  I find here on the
                                                                      		contrary they are always altered or later than rest.
Things to be done                                                     		Note remark at p 119 Willis about lost succession of orders and
                                                                      		connect this with the peculiar luxuriance of the Venetian
                                                                      		Gothic under, I presume the Bons.  different from all
                                                                      		other places.
                                                                      		Look for Shafted imposts.  noted at p 119.
                                                                      Byzantine Friezes.  The fine cornice of the Riva del Carbon occurs
                                                                      		in a beautiful continuous piece of a house standing on detached
                                                                      		pillars on the canal close to the church of the Miracoli
                                                                      		beyond the Palazzo Sanuto, the house above has been
                                                                      		restored - but a Romanesque cross and six or seven
                                                                      		animal niches, are built into the side of it:  and in its
                                                                      		windows remain two beautiful shafts of red Verona
                                                                      		Marble, with the early truncated head [diagram]:  A
                                                                      		brick arch in the back of a house close by is remarkable
                                                                      		as attaining the ogee stilt in brick as at B. opp.
                                                                      St John and Paul:
                                                                      Of the Venetian Dog tooth
                                                                      		As we have seen that the most effective and valuable

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