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                                                                      		great step:  at this point the Saracenic arches in St Marks
	This moulding d is most usually this                                 Mu[o]s[n]t have been built and from them, by merely sharpening
in even with a shorter cavette		It is                                 School No 4.	the bend of the arch, we have directly the arch d:  this I
that of the lower arches:  both pointed and round, of                 find in the same house with c, ponte dei Caleghieri, execu-
the Casa d’Oro, which are much older than the rest.                   ted with the moulding d:  this change in the moulding
                                                                      			is a great step, and must be examined thoroughly.  Now I
                                                                      		find in the same house, the dinwod e, worked with the
                                                                      simpler section e opposite, the shaded part on the right
                                                                      being the cusp:  and without any final the dentils meeting
                                                                      in sharp point: and in the traghetto Gargoni - Garzone
	This stream of Gothic, I imagine.  I shall have to turn              a fine example of the window and worked with the section d
up from Pisa:  There the Romanesque forms show a transi-              with a trefoiled cusp added:  and the window d  above with
tional character to Gothic as at Venice the Byzantine;  and           the same section;  and no finials to any:  but magnified
a much purer one:  I must trace till I fully understand               shafts with dog tooth band.
whenever arose that singularly pure simple and                        		Now;  it appears to me that just at this period, came in the
perfect Gothic, of which the Palazzo publica at Como                  stream (x) of Gothic which forms its first poole or eddies
and Milan are so beautiful examples: and whose leading                in the churches  f San Stefano, San G and Paul &c - and
characteristics are, 1st coloured voussoirs of red brick              that the first result of this concurrence was the inspirat-
and white or green serpentine and white:  Exquisite masonry           tion of the finials; which formed a permanent type for som
of these voussoirs, Springing or radiant, vide p 50.                  time;  The appearance of the circles must date I think
                                                                      from the windows of the Feari being imitated in the
                                                                      palazzo Cavalli:  Thus there are however two forms in
                                                                       which the circle seems first to appear;  the one, an
                                                                      expansion of the inserted circle with
                                                                      
                                                                      								[cont. 57]

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