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                                                                      Cinque Cento.	The delicacy and power of the work on some of the doors
                                                                      		at Verona is most singular;  more capitals with cherubs
                                                                      		heads and spread wings - as delicate as is possible, edgy
                                                                      		and bright in light, incomparably finer than anything at
                                                                      		Venice;  on another pair of capitals the angles are formed
                                                                      		by two dolphins tails which lash up and curl into the
                                                                      		abacus;  they have been too slender however, and are
                                                                      		entirely broken away.  Generally  I find the work here
                                                                      		more classical, and in a manner which is leading to worse
                                                                      		things than the cinq. cento of Venice - stiffer lines,
                                                                      		more abstracted ornament - more armour, instruments -
                                                                      		and angular forms - less pure imitation - but incomparably
                                                                      		finer in Composition and architectural application:
                                                                      		more especially because the c. c. ornament is often applied
                                                                      		to the grand old Romanesque sections in nook shafts, etc.
                                                                      		and associates itself gracefully with similar imitations
                                                                      		of the antique of a far earlier date while at Venice
                                                                      		the forms are all the vile Palladian and Sansovino ones;
                                                                      		conf. the pilasters of the Miracoli, though the leafage
                                                                      		is more free and wild.
                                                                      San Fermo Maggiore.  Early Gothic.  The arcade on the north side of
                                                                      		this church is the most precise finished and exquisite I
                                                                      		ever saw vide p 20 bit book.  The cusp is perfectly plain;
                                                                      		the chamfer formed by incision on edge.  Petrils at p 20 w
                                                                      		1. only note, that at another point of the arcade the
                                                                      		impost is as

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