[M.157L]                                                              [M.157]	Frari.  Tombs and Screen	157
                                                                      
[diagrams]                                                            		roses, on the whole one of the best executed for its statues
                                                                      		and all in Venice  Note in all these sarcophagi, plan, first
Mode of trefolation, de  d, the side [?].  e, the                     		a and b horizontal with leaf plinths and finally c shelled
front under the Foscari tomb.                                         		the leaf plinth following always.
                                                                      	Tomb of Giustiniani:  another plain sarcophagus with a
                                                                      		sharp early plinth double lobed - and archaic stiff madonna
                                                                      		a little earlier perhaps, or worse worked than earliest doge’s
                                                                      		palace - Gabled dentil on Brackets below, which are
                                                                      		more luxuriant than the rest, small angels drawing
                                                                      		curtains on each side of Madonna or ringed rods.
                                                                      	Tomb of Foscari.  All the grossest Bonism: figures without hands
                                                                      		- Effigy vile:  Leafage luxuriant.  Virtues classical: water
                                                                      		still in vase:  Trefoliation as opp.
                                                                      	Screen of the Frari:  In stone, with a cross above, & brackets to carry
                                                                      		figures, all luxuriant:  and of the style of inner arcade of Porta
                                                                      		della Carta.  It bears date 1475.  Good sculpture in heads:
                                                                      		but pilaster shafts capitals with cherub heads and [?] bracket
                                                                      		moulding below - along plinth like Bernado and other late
                                                                      		palaces.  This bracket door of the Giustiniani &c occurs also
                                                                      		in the palazzo Bernado at St Polo, but I think later than
                                                                      		upper part of palace.
                                                                      		The enormous brackets of foliage which hold the reading desks -
                                                                      		"ambones"! in the Frari, are farther examples of the spirit of accumu-

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