157 125
BYZANTINE FRIEZES
Porches. In speaking of them generally note Willis’s strange as-
sertion of none in Italian Gothic - after just before
naming Manga p 122, 123. Compare Grotto’s first pl[,]an
of Florence
Doors passages about their preservation p 113. I find here on te
contrary they are always altered or later than rest.
Note remark ar p 119 Willis about lost succession of order
a - d correct this with the peculiar luxuriance of the
Venetian Gothic under - I presume the Bars - different
from all other places.
Look for Shafted imports - noted at p 119.
Byzantine Freieze. The fine cornice of the Riva del Carbon occurs
in a beautiful continuous piece of a house standing on
detached pillars on the canal close to the church of the
Minacoli beyond the Palazzo Santo, the lower house
above has been restored but a Romanesque cross and
six or seven animal inches, are built into the side of
it: and in to windows remain two beautiful shafts of red
Verona Marble, with the early truncated head
A brick arch in the back of a house close by is
remarkable as attaining the ogee stilt in brick as it
B. opp.
St John and Paul:
Of the Venetian Dog tooth
As we have seen that the most effective and valuable
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