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The agenda set on 6th October in Notebook M p.2, and in the pencil notes at the beginning of Notebook N was to trace the decline of Gothic. The antithesis with the Ducal Palace in Venice as the central building of the world (at Works, 9.37ff) is clear. Compare ‘every style in the world’ with that passage, with Notebook M p.76 on the relationship between styles of the world in St. Marks Square, and with Lindsay (Lindsay (1847) I pp.69-70) - ‘The dome in short is the true offspring, the peculiar expression of the contemplative east, and the nations of the west will be found, I think, to have adopted or rejected it merely in proportion in which the Contemplative or Active, the Imaginative or Reasoning, the Classic or Teutonic, have predominated in their character.’
See too the material on the pure stream of Gothic as seen in Venice at Notebook M pp.47-8, and compare the ‘glacier streams’ of the Lombards at Works, 9.40.
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