68 45 CA D’ORO TRACERIES FIRST STORY to show the arrangement of the dentils: b above c below the capital: the two on the left, with their intermediate ornament fo right round the whole window, as a square border, through curiously involved; they are seen in the section E. of No 17 another dental appears in the section b here; this goes round the ogee arch, and is the dentil marked d c in section A of No 17 while a b there is the large dentil e f of section E: The square line round section a is the abacus head: which has a slight excess over the pilasters as seen in the sections b c of No 23. The smaller window is executed with precisely the same tracery as the others: onlythe cusps, ihstead of being merely filleted, are cut clear through and left as open bands; the same bands join the head in the centre of the 4 foil like notre dame, but the head is most rudely cut; The second roll which forms the central tracery bars is carried through the figure A. opposite melting truly into bars into itself at the junctions. The stonework is not cut open either in the spaces a or b. The other drawing on No 23 is of course the true contour. Gothic schools of Venice. Beginning with pure Byzantine domestic; we have the stilted round arch: and St Marks flanking arches, all alik ecclesiastical and civil. with basket capitals. Then
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