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[VB.41L]                                                              [VB.41]							41
                                                                      
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                                                                      		Section 11
                                                                      		Chap 1st
                                                                      The main division of Venetian archit
                                                                      being made in last section we
                                                                      proceed to examine its earliest form.
                                                                      The Byz. Romanesque.
                                                                      	Sketch of the rise of Venice. Its
                                                                      	earliest feelings & efforts
                                                                      	The eastern stamp already visible
                                                                      	at Torcello. Examination of
                                                                      	the Three Currents.
                                                                      	1. Roman Christian
                                                                      	2. Byzantine.
                                                                      	3. Lombardic.
                                                                      
                                                                      Compounding at Torcello: perhaps
                                                                      1 and 2 joining first. and then
                                                                      3 [Curdling ?] in
                                                                      
                                                                      		Chap 11.
                                                                      Main characteristics of the new architecture
                                                                      			of small or large
                                                                      Proportional: superimposition ^ a peculiar
                                                                      character: of all the good styles
                                                                       -kept in all good Gothic - lost
                                                                      in the vile Renaissance
                                                                      Other general marks of the manner

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