[M.126L]                                                              [M.126]	The Venetian Dogtooth	126
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                                                                      		form of the dentil resulted from the alternate chiselling
                                                                      		away of the edge of the slab of overlaid stone:  The
                                                                      		Dogtooth - a form hardly less influential at Venice:  and
                                                                      		far more extended in its use elsewhere:  resulted from a
                                                                      		process still more simple:  It is in the early examples
                                                                      		merely a hacked angle a opp.  This ornament is constant
                                                                      		in timber architecture: as in the Swiss cottage: and it
                                                                      		is used variously on the timbers of modern boats at
                                                                      		Venice, in the form b.
                                                                      		In its first architectural form, I find it in the
                                                                      		most interesting windows at p 9 Gothic book, clerestory
                                                                      		lights rather, which are perched above the top of every
                                                                      		aisle window in St John and Paul: The sub arch
                                                                      		decoration I have only met with to-day, at the Frari and
                                                                      		here - 8th January.  nor have I before met with
                                                                      		this form of the dogtooth:  The stilting of the string
                                                                      		in the middle of the arch is curius - to be noted with
                                                                      		other rudenesses of the same kind:  and observe here
                                                                      		also, the very simplest form of capital:  the pilaster
                                                                      		with its ordinary moulding, mere twisted round and
                                                                      		flattened under the abacus.
                                                                      		It is altogether, rude base and all - a most precious
                                                                      		example of early work.  The top of the nave pier arch with

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