[M.128L]                                                              [M.128]	San Giovanni and Paulo	128
inscription being MCCCCLXXV.  Optime Jacobo Manroceno                 
procurante, his sedil haec marmora sunt adjuncta.                     		Pacific 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 Zaccaria is 1443.  It would be worth while
                                                                      		tomorrow making a note of a flamboyant boss at
                                                                      		the Frari, to compare it with a St Mark’s ball.
                                                                      		Note what Selvatico says also of St Marc and of
                                                                      		the dossale di Legno of the Frari.
                                                                      Plan of		Tomorrow, if pos: see this dossale at lateral door.
                                                                      a day.		Note flamboyant door and niches.  Dag the tomb
                                                                      1.		and so to St Mark’s
                                                                      No 108 Fig 3.  This is I think the earliest occurrence of the leaf
Another step forward from the curling of the upper lobe is to put     Capitals		with the curled lobe at top. it is the capital of one of the
fruit inside of it, held by it: a great mistake: leading to the       Leaflobes	nave piers of San Gio et Paolo.  It is very finely cut, flowing
whole heavy system of the late Venice Gothic.  This is done if        		and beautiful:  and doubtless the Franciscan sculptors
I mistake not in a very early instance in the columns supporting the  		thought it a great step when they had changed the rude
upper first story of the house close to the Miracolo;  where the door 		sharp Byzantine cutting into that flowing leafage, of which
has the gabled dentil curiously introduced:  and where:  in the       		fig 5 is an expanded leaf: the idea being that this
second story of the court there is a leaf capital of the greatest     		leaf should be set with its upper surface towards the
lightness & beauty with a pair of slender cusped 5th, quite           		capital bell, and then bend round, showing its
exquisite.                                                            		rib outside at top:  But the  capital though far
This light leaf capital cutting ought to give me a day’s study.       		finer in workmanship, is far inferior in effect, to
it seems to spring from the early  cut Lombard of S.M. Mater D.       		earlier ones:  Observe its simplicity all cut down
                                                                      		from abacus: no circular bell set under, while in the

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