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Title: A history of architecture in Italy from the time of Constantine to the dawn of the renaissance
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Cummings, Charles Amos, 1833-1905
Subjects: Architecture
Publisher: Boston, New York, Houghton Mifflin and company
Contributing Library: PIMS - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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^ that the two churches whichare all which Venice has to show of importance as illustrations ofEcclesiastical Gothic, were begun. The Franciscan church of the Frari, — or to give it its full-sounding vocable, S. Maria Gloriosa dei Frari, — and the Dominican
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Fig-. 861. Orvieto. Rose ^Villduw in Fagade. THE GOTHIC 191 church of SS. Giovanni e Paolo, are so nearly similar and sonearly contemporary that they may be considered together, xhe Frari.Mothes gives the date of the foundation of the Frari as s. Giovanniearly as 1192 ; but this date applies more probably to the ^ ^^°^°foundation of the convent to which the church was attached, and itappears to be matter of record that the corner-stone was laid in1250. SS. Giovanni e Paolo was begun some sixteen years earlier,but its construction w^as much interrupted, and the church was not<!ompleted before the fifteenth century. At tlie period when thesechurches were begun, Venice was rapidly rising to the height of herglor)^ and was in the full enjoyment of the power and prestige whichfollowed her triumphant, though unscrupulous, conduct of the fourthcrusade. But neither of them shows anv strikino- evidence of thewealth or the pride of the growing state. Though of ample dimen-sions, — nearly

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