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                                                                      			No s 13, and 14.  CHURCH OF SAN GIOV. AND PAOLO F[D]rari
                                                                      		possibly be more ugly;  partly owing to the purely
	The more I examined the details of this door the more I ad-           material shaft instead of tapered, looking like a long
		mired them, even the roll would have  been very noble in            found tower;  and partly to the flat and ugly capital.
	mere Archit. Admitting a roll of such a size - All its               		     The roll round the door mentioned in the paper
	other details are of the noblest style though all misapplied         is a beautiful instance of mistakenly applied ornament
                                                                      It is far too imitative, missing its architectual pur-
                                                                      pose;  A less detailed ornament would have been far more
                                                                      comprehensible to the eye in its place;  more abstract
                                                                      and simple:  Its separate parts should have found portions
                                                                      of sculpture to whch the eye should have been es[x]pecially
                                                                      directed.  Fine cinquecento work, like that of Monza,
                                                                      while it is finished in its workmanship, us never wanting
                                                                      in architectual effec[a]t.
                                                                      Niches. No 14.		Niches Fig 1.  St John and Paul:  a mode of placing
                                                                      the niche on the cornice (cornice described in No 13):
                                                                      b capital and 3 foil of niche;  the latter too large in
                                                                        the entire figure  The figures are nicely set on the
                                                                      angles, and the foliation is bold and grotesque;  but the
                                                                      finial and figure on it, are ridiculously large;  and the
                                                                      want of a pediment on each side ruinous.
                                                                      		Still more defective i[w]s fig 2 from the facade of the
                                                                      Frari  Its pinnacle is faced with ri[o]veted marble slabs;
                                                                      a pencilled.  A could not make out the St G & P whether
                                                                      octagonal or not.  The certical gables about it would
                                                                      mark its date as corresponding with Coros d’Uro and
                                                                      such arabic work.  The bold proje ction of capital, and
                                                                      total absence of trefoil, both very curious

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