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                                                                      FRARI  CHURCH OF
                                                                      The sharpest points I have found of this order with the
                                                                      rare a2 section are two windows in a small house beside the
                                                                      Ponte dell ‘Arco, San G. in Bragona, one is drawn on the
                                                                      brown leaf of the Palace book:  Another, less sharp, is
                                                                      in the Tana - behind arsenal.
                                                                      Sea Gulls.	It was lovely to see them in the grey darkness of
                                                                      The snowy sky with the deep local green of the sea - the
                                                                      dark canal reflected on their white under bodies in a
                                                                      dim chrysoprase, opposed to the purply grey of their
These tombs are in the Chapel near volta sacra al                     backs.  Their wings are edged with white in front and
Serafico    One is unknown, the one with the heads, on the            they were pausing conti[n]nually at one or two feet above
right is that of Duccio degli Alberti the Florentine, who             the water, flapping their wings slowly like moths.
died in Venice in 1336.                                               Bracket Ornament.  In its most colossal form it occurs on a late door
                                                                      in the interior of the transept of the Frari, the brackets
                                                                      being some three inches or four wide.
                                                                      Gabled Dentil: I was  surprised to find this ornament used in both
                                                                      the early tombs which I have described in the Frari, on
                                                                      their cornices;  as well as very flat on the beautiful ear-
                                                                      ly door near the Post Office - and on the 4th order windows
                                                                      in the house in the Campo St Margherita:  when the door
                                                                      much later evidently than that at Post Office, has a
                                                                      scutcheon

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