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                                                                      			     GOTHIC SCHOOLS.
                                                                      
                                                                      	thing of which even traces exist at Venice:  It is the
                                                                      Lombard exalted and purified:  Note its grouping of 5
                                                                      arches at Pistoya and Lucca: how like Byzntine fashion.
                                                                      
                                                                      	Now at Venice, there is a meeting of a dying and barbarous
                                                                      Romanesque that of the fugitives from Aguleia and other
	 Note at Venice, how singular that not one spring 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 district 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 dis-
                                                                      tinguished 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 Sanu cle; opposite to ghetto leading to
                                                                      St Margherita.
                                                                      Of these the 2nd and note this in describing it, has only
                                                                      on its under side, monsters:  very vilely cut through
                                                                      richly interwoven;  and on the outer architrave,
                                                                      a classical wreathed frieze, having a disgreeable 
                                                                      brotherhood with late London f[g]ire grate patterns.

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