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                                                                      	                ROMANESQUE
                                                                      
                                                                      	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 frint
                                                                      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 Xtianit[i]y;  the form described by
                                                                      	Lord Lindsay Letter 1 p 7  We have almost the type
                                                                      of a Byzantine church:  Cu[r]rious - if the noble cupola had
                                                                      indeed its organ in the Gave:  if that which Lord Lindsay
                                                                      thinks the type of heaven, wasindeed only the hollowing
                                                                      of the ea[r]rth.  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 en[h]ough evidence of
                                                                      it at p 15 X   Note - Mosaics used in the basilicas and
                                                                      Opus Graecanicum, p 17.
                                                                      Observe the distinction between Byzantine and Roman

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