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                                                                      		SAN GREGORIO CHURCH
                                                                      	smaller roll in the general effect.  All the rolls
                                                                      harmoniously and thoroughly cut and harmonized.  though 
                                                                      the design of thetracery of the lower windows, fig 2
                                                                      is awkward and ungraceful, it is thoroughly precise
                                                                      and scientific in workmanship.  The moss cusps are
                                                                      Cusps	curious, and may be studied for their fine upper line a b
                                                                      opposite or as  a2 b2 neaerer;  yet how inferior
                                                                      this to the simple curve of true Gothic, a3 b3  The 4
                                                                      foil at top of all is unusually open in foils.  Observe a
                                                                      mistake in fig 2 the deep recess within the third tier of
                                                                      bricks is entirely missed and the stone is represented as
                                                                      coming to the first order of brickwork when it reaches no
                                                                      farther than the second as in the other window:  The
                                                                      section of this pilaster head, for such it is: (there being
                                                                      no correspondent cornice to the joints of the pillars
                                                                      in the centre, is the early one C. of book: and the whole o[k]
                                                                      	of the a[r]rchitecture is very early:  and must yet it has
                                                                      points of the closest correspondence with both the foscari
                                                                      and the Ca d(Oro on the one hand;  which assuredly
                                                                      it is contemporary with the Frari on the other.  Note
                                                                      also that the flatness of  he circle on which the cusps are
                                                                      decsribed as at B opposite (?) the is perhaps an effect
                                                                      of perspective.  I believe it a true semicircle in both
                                                                      upper and lower windows.
                                                                      

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