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                                                                      			GOTHIC SCHOOLS.
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                                                                      		thing of which even traces exist at Venice:  It is the
                                                                      		Lombard exalted and purified:  Note its grouping of 5
                                                                      		arches at Pistoja and Lucca: how like Byzantine fashion.
                                                                      
                                                                      		Now at Venice, there is a meeting of a dying and barbarous
                                                                      		Romanesque that of the fugitives from Aquileia and other
Note at Venice, how singular that not one sprung arch                 		last strongholds of the Roman empire:  with the Byzantine
should occur - On the contrary the Venetian or at least               		itself a similar corruption of Romanesque forms.
Veronese system seems to be to throw the external                     		Perhaps also, with distinct and rude imitations of
arches very nearly into a semicircle - while the internal             		Greek Athenian work, when they became possessors of
arch is pointed.                                                      		Athens:  These round arches are not so numerous as I
                                                                      		thought:  In their pure early form they are always
                                                                      		distinguished by a projecting cornice:  I have , first, my
                                                                      		house at the Foscari:  2nd, House near Rialto, associated
                                                                      		with 4th:  Third:  House opposite post office;  fourth,
                                                                      		one Daged near Frari, 5th in narrow canal at post Office.
                                                                      		6th in Campo St Samuele; opposite traghetto leading to
                                                                      		St Margherita.
                                                                      		Of these the 2nd and note this in describing it, has only
                                                                      		on its under side, monsters:  very vilely cut though
                                                                      		richly interwoven;  and on the outer architrave,
                                                                      		a classical wreathed frieze, having a disagreeable 
                                                                      		brotherhood with late London fire grate patterns.

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