[No.19] [RL 1636 box]

[landscape orientation]

Church of
Frari. Main door. Pure heavy pointed - mouldings
continuous all round and down. only cut by a narrow couse
of ornament which becomes a kind of capital when it goes
round the rolls - not a mere band - for it projects boldly and
gracefully: It goes clean across the door: forming a
for the door way which is surrounded by a cable moulding.
Pinnacles on each side panelled like our perpendicular. and
with the same bad effect. only panels divided by round small
arches, with fleur di lis thrown down. ( one of the
[diagram]	circular windows at the side has a magnificent moulding
		of fleur di lis outside, instead of with rose: the St
		Mark lion at top: Dentils within ). Statues on
		top. and on the finial of door. which is rather a
		basket stuck out than proper finial. for the dripstone
		is thin and comes to a true point. The whole
highly ungraceful. but the mouldings grand & masterly. though blunt

Palace next Ca’ d’ Oro. on the right.[Pal Morosini Sagredo] the picturesque on with
		windows below and  [diagram] above
The semi byzantine windows below have shafts much tapered
on high and rude square pedestals  + Their capitals heavy and
Lombard like but may be imitation - - ie

+ i.e [diagram]	 diagonal					[diagram]

and general effect						without any work or ornament

[diagram]	The pedestal
		fully one fourth
		height of shaft

[vertical orientation]

Palace near Ca’ doro, continued

[diagram]	The arch section is thus, very simple. a b. being the dentil which goes clear
		round and forms the point awkwardly thus		[diagram]
		The dentils are in contact at the point that
		is stilted: but are not, which is curious
		wrought alternately where they touch - but
		one a little above the other	[diagram]

The upper windows

[diagram]
	have the same moulding, but the dentils are not in contact: two or three inches
	apart: and the cusp is proportionately deeper. filling up the square of the capital
	The capitals are puzzeling: they are of a very beautiful [radiant?] leafage yet cut like
	early work
	but very pecise: as if an imitation at in later times. The balcony is certainly cin cen.
The great foils above. have the massy moulding		[diagram]
remarkable for shallowness or cavetto and depth of
recess to cusp. b c.
the cusp is truncated		[diagram]
and filleted . and
the great outer rolls
are in contact at
junction. not melted
into one.

								No 19. Church of Frari .. and
								palace near Ca’ d ‘Oro;
										Nov. 19th.
											3 - 6 Sagred

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