[M.132L]                                                              [M.132]	Frari, Church of	132
                                                                      
                                                                      4th Order: 	The sharpest points I have found of this order
                                                                      windows	with the rare a2 section are two windows in a
                                                                      		 small house beside the Ponte dell ‘Arco, San G. in
                                                                      		Bragora.  one is drawn on the brown leaf of the
                                                                      		Palace book:  Another, less sharp, is in the
                                                                      		Tana - behind arsenal.
                                                                      Sea Gulls.	It was lovely to see them in the grey darkness of
                                                                      		the snowy sky with the deep local green of the
                                                                      		sea - the dark canal - reflected on their white under
                                                                      		bodies in a dim chrysoprase, opposed to the purply
These tombs are in the Chapel una volta sacra al Serafico             		grey of their backs.  Their wings are edged with
One is unknown, the one with the heads, on the right                  		white in front and they were pausing continually
is that of Duccio degli Alberti the Florentine, who died              		at one or two feet above the water, flapping their
in Venice in 1336.                                                    		wings slowly like moths.
                                                                      Bracket Ornament.  In its most colossal form it occurs on
                                                                      		a late door in the interior of the transept of the Frari, the brackets
                                                                      		being some three inches or four wide.
                                                                      Gabled Dentil: I was surprised to find this ornament used
                                                                      		in both the early tombs which I have described in
                                                                      		the Frari, on their cornices; as well as very flat
                                                                      		on the beautiful early door near the Post Office.
                                                                      		- and on the 4th order windows in the house in the
                                                                      		Campo St Margherita:  where the door, much later
                                                                      		evidently than that at Post Office, has a scutcheon

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