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                                                                      FRARI  TOMBS  AND SCREEN
                                                                      		roses, on the whole one of the best executed for its
                                                                      statues and all in Venice Note in all these sarco-
                                                                      phagi plan, first a and b horizontal with leaf plinths
                                                                      and finally c shelled the leaf plinth following always
                                                                      	      Tomb of Giustucianio:  another plain sarcophagus with a sharp
                                                                       early plinth double lobed - and archaic stiff madonna
                                                                      a little earlier perhaps, or worse worked than earliest
                                                                      doge’s palace - Gabled dentil on Brackets below, which
                                                                      are more luxuriant than the rest, small angels drawing
                                                                      curtains on each side of Madonna or ringed rods.
                                                                               Tomb of Foscari.  All the grossest Bonism:  figures without
                                                                      hands - Effigy vile:  Leafage luxuriant - Virtues classical
                                                                      water still in vase:  Trefoliation as opp.
                                                                               Screen of the Frari:  In stone, with a cross above, and
                                                                      brackets to carry figures, all luxuriant:  and of the style
                                                                      of inner arcade of Ponto della Centa - It bears date
                                                                      1475 Good sculpture in heads:  but pilaster capitals with
                                                                      cherub heads and bracket moulding below - along plinth
                                                                      like Bernado and other late palaces.  This bracket
                                                                      door of the Giustinari &c occurs also in the palazzo
                                                                      Bernado at St Paolo but I think later than upper part
                                                                      of palace.
                                                                      The enormous brackets of foliage which hold the reading
                                                                      desks - "ambones"! the Frari, are further examples of the spirit of accumu

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