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                                                                      		at the bases produce exactly the effect of mice who had
                                                                      		got there by accident, one feels them ridiculously
                                                                      		diminutive and utterly useless:  How the wonderful unity
                                                                      		is attained in the Doge palace vines and other such early
                                                                      		work, I must further consider but these shafts  which (all
                                                                      		but the capitals) are pure Corinthian with garland wonderfully
                                                                      		cut in stone hung upon them, and little beasts set
                                                                      		round their bases, are to be opposed to the rude shafts
                                                                      		unfluted, but glowing with natural vines, of St Marks;
                                                                      		with their rude rock bases, as if they had been half hewn
                                                                      		out of the Earth, and the sweeping lines of their broad
                                                                      Bases		leaf bases  gradually transforming themselves into shapes
                                                                      		of beauty;  note especially the way the angel is wrought
                                                                      		into the architectural lines described p 199 M. 1. but distinguish
                                                                      		this noble restraint and unity from the passing of
                                                                      		fish into flesh and of " nonsense into sense" in cinque cen.
                                                                      Traceries of the Frari.
                                                                      		1st. Lower range of the Apse:  the upper rudely drawn
                                                                      		already.  The lower is like it with pointed arch and cross
                                                                      		bar of 4 foils.  The pointed arch tracery is daguerreotyped;
                                                                      		with its cornice and the great cornice under
                                                                      		the upper story.
                                                                      		On no 147 are some of the details of this upper arch of
                                                                      		lower story.  Fig 1 its great archivolt and cornice
                                                                      		section;  with point of arch curiously forming dentil.
                                                                      		2 Tracery bar through lower cusp

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