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[GB.42L]                                                              [GB.42]							42
                                                                      
                                                                      	Chapel next choir on the
base in lateral chapels                                               	North St John and Paul.
all  [?] & from stilted arches                                        
of apse                                                               
                                                                      
                                                                      Tomb on left side of chapel next
[Part of page cut away]                                               choir on  north side has a very
                                                                      archaic madonna-
                                                                                   rose
                                                                      spirited   leaf plinth of type like
                                                                      that on No 115.
                                                                      gabled dentil. & spiral shafts
                                                                      like doges palace tracery block
                                                                         filling
                                                                      
                                                                      On other side        Peter Cornaro.
                                                                      most valuable for dentils
                                                                      There is a nameless tomb on its north side
                                                                      which has a most archaic madonna . stiff
                                                                      and lifeless in action as well as in cutting
                                                                      . yet it has a spirited leaf ribbed plinth -
                                                                      one of the sharpest I have seen of the type of
                                                                       No115 - and special shafts filled with
                                                                      blocks exactly like Ducal palace.
                                                                      It has gabled dentils also.
                                                                      How curious. after the Grace & finish of the
                                                                      Byzantine work that in the 14th century
                                                                        they should have sunk back to this & to
                                                                        such monstrous work as that of Marco Giustiniani
                                                                        p 52. M.2. I must see what Lord L says
                                                                         of this again
                                                                          On the other side Peter Corner[o].

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