1½										   1.
                                                                      
                                                                      
                                                                      This book continues 1850, ends abruptly on the road home, at
                                                                      Bourges, in 1851, some notes of Wenlock, p 188.  INDEX. p 189
                                                                      		
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                                                                      Chap.     Of the Venetian Dentil.
                                                                      
                                                                      We have seen how much the picturesque effect of early work
                                                                          depended on the tracing of lines upon its surfaces: (work out this in comparing Lombard architecture with Prout &c.)  Now, there are of course two modes of tracing a surface 
                                                                      line in distant effect:  The one by the rraising or sink-
                                                                      ing of a continuous ridge or hollow, which shall produce a
                                                                      line of continuous shade:  The other by a succession of
                                                                      points of shade, obtained either by bosses or hollows.
                                                                      The most ornamental method is asuredly the last:  It
                                                                      is employed in the ornament of nature more frequently 
                                                                      than any other:  In that of art, it is the principle of
                                                                      the common Ionic dentil - of the bead mouldings of all the
                                                                      orders of the Norman billet - the English dogtooth;  and
                                                                      in its simplest and most inegnious application of the
                                                                      Venetian dentil.
                                                                      
                                                                      (Note, dogtooth cut out of ridge in Servi) and gabled
                                                                      dentil perhaps in its boldest development with a late leaf
                                                                      plinth in the church of St Polo.

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