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[M.48L] [M.48] Schools of Venice 48
[diagrams]
great step: At this point the Saracenic arches in St Marks
must have been built and from them, by merely sharpening
This moulding d is most usually thus [diagram] or even with School No 4. the bend of the arch, we have directly the arch d: This I
a shorter cavetto [diagram]: It is that of the lower find in the same house with c, ponte dei Caleghieri;
arches: both pointed and round, of the Casa d’Oro, executed with the moulding d: This change in the moulding
which are much older than the rest. is a great step, and must be examined thoroughly. Now I
find in the same house, the window e, worked with the
simpler section e opposite, the shaded part on the right being
the cusp: and without any finial - the dentils meeting
in sharp point: and in the traghetto Garzoni - Garzoni
a fine example of the window & worked with the section d
This stream of Gothic, I imagine I shall have to turn up from Pisa. with a trefoiled cusp added: and the window d above
There the Romanesque forms show a transitional character to Gothic with the same section; and no finials to any: but magnificent
as at Venice the Byzantine; and a much purer one: I must trace shafts with dog tooth band.
this till I fully understand whence arose that singularly pure Now; it appears to me that just at this period, came in the
simple & perfect Gothic, of which the Palazzo publico at Como stream * of Gothic which forms its first pools or eddies in
and Milan are so beautiful examples: and whose leading characteristics the churches of San Stefano, San G & Paul, &c: and that
are - 1st coloured voussoirs of red brick & white or green serpentine the first result of this concurrence was the imposittion of the
& white: Exquisite masonry of these voussoirs, Springing or radiant finials; which formed a permanent type for some time.
vide p 50. The appearance of the circle, must date I think from the
windows of the Frari being imitated in the palazzo Cavalli
: Thus there are however two forms in which the circle seems
first to appear; the one, an expansion of the inserted circle with
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[Version 0.05: May 2008]