[M.46L]                                                               [M.46]
                                                                      No 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29.	Church of the Frari	46
                                                                      	& San G. and P.
                                                                      
                                                                      		the Byzantine modified by point, and altered in tracery
                                                                      		[diagram]: Then [diagram]: and then - I want the earliest case of
                                                                      		foliation - then there is a great gulph. which I cannot cross.
                                                                      Question 1st.	Examine the windows [diagram] with a view to this: noting
                                                                      		house described in No 19.  Once this gulph passed;  one goes
                                                                      		on to the Doges’ palace - but into what did the doge’s palace die?
                                                                      		It breaks off abruptly - or q. does the second current of Gothic
                                                                      		fall in & sweep it away.
                                                                      		Again, the churches of San G & Paolo and the Frari are of
                                                                      		an ancient & barbarous gothic - associated with Verona
                                                                      		and the Lombards;  with delicate but flat Lombard
                                                                      		capitals:  Now note that the arch section of the Frari
                                                                      		nave - rudely drawn on No 24, is precisely the same
                                                                      		as the window section of the house in No 19: How strange
                                                                      		if this should be the correspondent ecclesiastical period.
                                                                      		There must howver have been foreign architects - the
                                                                      		builders of those Byzantine houses never could have
                                                                      		borne the rude shaft, untapered of the Frari.
                                                                      Foliation.	With this style, foliation is rapidly associated, vide
                                                                      		drawing of upper & lower window of the apse of the
                                                                      		Frari, No 25.  But where did this skill in vaulting
                                                                      Question 2nd	and in foliation come from?
                                                                      		Consider also, this bold vaulting without external buttress

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