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                                                                      		plinths projecting from the church wall - carried by florid
                                                                      		brackets - over them an arched or gabled canopy is thrown;
                                                                      		in its simplest form carried by brackets also, fig 1;
                                                                      		In later examples; pinnacles are placed at the side as if
                                                                      		to resist the lateral thrust - themselves carried by circular or
                                                                      		polygonal brackets;  and the canopy is crocketed and
                                                                      		finialed;  But in no Venetian example is it foliated; and
                                                                      		herein consists one marked feature of this sepulchral architecture:
                                                                      		All the exuberance of ornament is thrown outwards
                                                                      		to the crockets:  the eye is left undisturbed to
                                                                      		seek under the central shade the bas relief or fresco
                                                                      		which fills the arch.
                                                                      Foliation.	Even When foliation occurs;  as in almost all the Veronese
                                                                      		examples, it is of a very simple kind;  trefoil only;
                                                                      		or else it appears to have been suggested by the edge of
                                                                      		the classical shell:  and the foil is solid and filled
                                                                      		with leafage, it also in the tomb of Stefano Visconti at
                                                                      		Milan.
                                                                      		When foliation is open;  and approaches the northern
                                                                      		traceried forms, the Italians seem never to have been
                                                                      		willing to part with the expression of legitimate
                                                                      		support;  and the light arches are either - as in rose
                                                                      		windows, supported by separate shafts, or else attached
                                                                      		to the wall and supported by brackets; not in one of the
                                                                      		nearest approaches to Northern form, the door of St Stefano
                                                                      		the foliation is still at the back of the arch

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