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ROMANESQUE
shows the light admitted through the circle above the
central window and gives the tracery in the other three
(more in the central) all of same pattern as opp.
It is difficult to say whether the upper part be or be not
meant for a wooden framework inside - corresponding to
tracery outside, a and b were sketched from the frint
they should be filled up like c. which seems to show a
double window; the transverse shading lines should be
darker
Romanesque of Venice.
My first step must be to fix something like a date for
the groups of Round and Byzantine arches.
Now: in the first ages of Xtianit[i]y; the form described by
Lord Lindsay Letter 1 p 7 We have almost the type
of a Byzantine church: Cu[r]rious - if the noble cupola had
indeed its organ in the Gave: if that which Lord Lindsay
thinks the type of heaven, wasindeed only the hollowing
of the ea[r]rth. But Lord L. (Note of Alexandria - Its Pagan
catacombs the same. For Works on Catacombs, vid Note p 8)
dismisses this idea at p 9; yet allows en[h]ough evidence of
it at p 15 X Note - Mosaics used in the basilicas and
Opus Graecanicum, p 17.
Observe the distinction between Byzantine and Roman
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