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                                                                      	at the bases produce exactly the effect of mice who had
                                                                      got there by accident, one feels them ridiculously
                                                                      diminuative 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 wonder-
                                                                      fully 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 v[i]eins, 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 architectual lines described p 199 M. 1. but dis-
                                                                      tinguish this noble restraint and unity from the passing of
                                                                      fish into flesh and of " nonsense into sense" in cinquo
                                                                      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 daguerreo-
                                                                      typed;  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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