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Holy Ghoft, and that of St. Lorenzo in the fame city. The 
fame may be feen in St. Mark’s, Venice, which was begun 
under the Doge Juftinian, and finifhed in the Grecian manner 
in the year 973. And thus things went on till the year 1140. 
In the fame Greek manner, and at the fame time, were the 
feven abbies, which the Count Hugo, Marquis of Branden- 
burgh, caufed to be made in Tufcany; and other buildings, 
which fhew, that architecture kept its ground a little, but 
much corrupted, and very different from the good ancient 
manner; of which many old palaces bear teftimony, built in 
Florence, after the ruin of Fefole, of Tufcan workmanfhip, 
but in the barbarous ftyle, in the meafure of the doors, and 
very long windows, and in the curviture of the fharp arches 
of the fourth point, in the turn of the arches, according to 
the practice of the ftrange archite@ts of thofe times. After- 
wards in the year ror3 the art feems to have recovered its 
vigor a little; in the rebuilding of the beautiful church of 
St. Miniato, in which it appears, that the Tufcan artifts en- 
deavoured to imitate in the doors, windows, columns, arches, 
cornices, as much as they could, the good ancient order, &c.” 
have been thus full in this extra@ from Vafari, as he is fo 
exprefs as to the period and manner in which this Gothic ftyle 
of building firft originated, and is fo competent a judge of fuch- a 
fubjed. 
Mr. Lepwicu indeed, in the effay above referred to, is of 
opinion, that the Gothic arch had been known and ufed many 
centuries before the Gothic power was eftablifhed. But the two 
inftances. 
