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                                                                      				ROMANESQUE
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                                                                      		shows the light admitted through the circle above the
                                                                      		central window and gives the tracery in the other three
                                                                      		(more in the central) all of same pattern as opp.
                                                                      		It is difficult to say whether the upper part be or be not
                                                                      		meant for a wooden framework inside - corresponding to
                                                                      		tracery outside, a and b were sketched from the print
                                                                      		they should be filled up like c. which seems to show a
                                                                      		double window;  the transverse shading lines should be
                                                                      		darker
                                                                      Romanesque of Venice.
                                                                      		My first step must be to fix something like a date for
                                                                      		the groups of Round and Byzantine arches.
                                                                      	Now: in the first ages of Xtianity;  the form described by
                                                                      		Lord Lindsay Letter 1 p 7  We have almost the type
                                                                      		of a Byzantine church:  Curious - if the noble cupola had
                                                                      		indeed its origin in the Gave:  if that which Lord Lindsay
                                                                      		thinks the type of heaven, was indeed only the hollowing
                                                                      		of the earth.  But Lord L.
                                                                      	(Note of Alexandria - Its Pagan catacombs the same.
                                                                      	For Works on Catacombs, vid Note p 8)
                                                                      		dismisses this idea at p 9;  yet allows enough evidence of
                                                                      		it at p 15 +   Note - Mosaics used in the basilicas and
                                                                      		Opus Graecanicum, p 17.
                                                                      		Observe the distinction between Byzantine and Roman

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