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No 19, 20, 21[e], 22 CHURCH OF FRARI CA D’ORO
field of snow was seen on their summits - though untouched
No 20 to 22 inclusive, describes the n[m]ave pillars of St by light, and all grim and wild against the sky: But at
Marks , 21 being a rough sketch of their effect from the the end of the range - right over Albumeno: we being on
nave in anout true perspective; all but character of the quay of the Jesuiti, burning crests of snow were seen
shaft, which it is easy to correct from the measures. mingled among bars[e] of cloud and gaps of sky: relieved
against grey sea cloud behind - The sun was seen setting,
the calm space of sky changed not - the clouds, as
motionless as the hills, and as defined - held up their
waved curtains from off the field of gold; and the
dark mountain curta n from off the field of gold; and
the dark mountain chain, countless in its serations, and
gathering together of pointed peaks, lay as sharp and
shattered against the amber air, as if it had been a
mass of near Highland hills.
Church of the Frari.
in the pinnacles of the great (west?) door the
pannel fleur de lys foliation, drawn in no looking like
some of thw abortions of dying Gothic in France: Yet
this, h[g]ere, is evidently a modification of the Byzantine
or Lomb[h]ard double arch, so often found in St Mark’s,
as on the left of my elaborate drawing: and agin in the
curious Byzantine palace down the grand canal near Rialto.
Find out origin and application of this.
No 23. Fog a - b - c elevation and tracery of the
third, or small intermediate window of Ca d’Oro. The sec-
tions b- c are nearly
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