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                                                                      	plinths projecting from the church wall - carried by florid
                                                                      brackets - over them an arched or gabled canopy is thrown;
                                                                      in its simplest form carried by brackets also, fig 1;
                                                                      In later examples; pinnacles are placed at the side as if
                                                                      to resist the lateral thrust - themselves carried by
                                                                      polygonal brackets;  and the canopy is crocketed and
                                                                      finialed;  But in no Venetian example is it foliated; and
                                                                      herein consists one marked feature of this sepulchral ar-
                                                                      chitecture:  All the exuberance of ronament is thrown out-
                                                                      wards at the crockets:  the eye is left undisturbed to
                                                                      seek under the central shade the bas relief or fresco
                                                                      which fills the arch.
                                                                      Foliation.	When foliation occurs;  as in almost all the Veronese
                                                                      examples, it is of a very simple kind;  trefoil only;
                                                                      or else it appears to have been suggested by the edge of
                                                                      the classical shell:  and the foil is solid and filled
                                                                      with leafage, it also in the tomb of Stefano Visconti at
                                                                      Milan.
                                                                      When foliation is open;  and approaches the northern
                                                                      traceried forms, the Italians seem never to have been
                                                                      willing to part with the expression of legitimate
                                                                      support;  and the light arches are either - as in rose
                                                                      windows, supported by separate shafts, or else attached
                                                                      to the wall and supported by brackets;  in one of the
                                                                      nearest approaches to Northern form, the door of St Stef[v]ano
                                                                      the foliation is still at the back of the arch

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