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is that of Jacopo Cavalli,¹ in the same chapel of St. John and Paul which contains the tomb of the Doge Delfin. It is peculiarly rich in religious imagery, adorned by boldly cut types of the four Evangelists, and of two saints, while, on projecting brackets in front of it, stood three statues of Faith, Hope, and Charity, now lost, but drawn in Zanotto’s work.² It is all rich in detail, and its sculptor has been proud of it, thus recording his name below the epitaph:

“QST OPERA DINTALGIO E FATTO IN PIERA,

UNVENICIAN LAFE CHANOME POLO,

NATO DI JACHOMEL CHATAIAPIERA.”

This work of sculpture is done in stone;

A Venetian did it, named Paul,

Son of Jachomel the stone-cutter.

Jacopo Cavalli died in 1384. He was a bold and active Veronese soldier, did the state much service, was therefore ennobled by it, and became the founder of the house of the Cavalli;³ but I find no especial reason for the images of the Virtues, especially that of Charity, appearing at his tomb, unless it be this: that at the siege of Feltre, in the war against Leopold of Austria, he refused to assault the city because the Senate would not grant his soldiers the pillage of the town. The feet of the recumbent figure, which is in full armour, rest on a dog, and its head on two lions; and these animals (neither of which form any part of the knight’s bearings) are said by Zanotto to be intended to symbolize his bravery and fidelity. If, however, the lions are meant to set forth courage, it is a pity they should have been represented as howling.

§ 70. We must next pause for an instant beside the tomb of Michael Steno, now in the northern aisle of St. John and

¹ [For a fuller account of this tomb, see the additional matter in Appendix 11, § 12, p. 302.]

² [The editors are unable to trace this reference to Zanotto. The tomb in question is not among those drawn in Cicognara’s and Zanotto’s Le Fabbriche e i Monumenti cospicui di Venezia (1838); it is referred to, but not drawn, in the work mentioned below, p. 247.]

³ [See Ruskin’s monograph, written for the Arundel Society, on The Cavalli Monuments in the Church of St. Anastasia, Verona (1872), reprinted in a later volume.]

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