[M.131L]                                                              [M.131]
                                                                      	St Marks. Tomb of Dandolo.	131
                                                                      
                                                                      		acknowledged  14th century work:  On the right of the
                                                                      		Baptistery of St Marks is the tomb of Andrea Dandolo,
                                                                      		on which this inscription says that mille trecentos quatuor
                                                                      		ut decies jour (quinos) dedisset - quinque I believe
                                                                      Idolatry		(by the by, note the Greek Pallas kind of feeling to
                                                                      Greek sculpture	Madonna in inscription, GREEK
                                                                      		p 69 my St Marks: and what is said of the stone
                                                                      		in Cardinal Zeno’s chapel:
                                                                      		Observe also the ornament of the Orange pillars of
                                                                      		the altar:  sweeping boughs of stone pine, very
                                                                      		grand)
                                                                      		-  i.e. 1354 date of Andrea’s death:  Nothing
                                                                      		is to be got from Venice and its lagoons, nor much from
                                                                      		Selvatico at p 146.  In the Pisan style it is certainly
                                                                      		on the sarcophagus with (three) basreliefs - very quaint
                                                                      		- vide p 12 Gothic book is supported on brackets, 
                                                                      		p 10 l G book: which carry first a bold leaf
                                                                      		plinth and hacked ledge in Verona marble set in
                                                                      		above: fig 1 p 10 G. Book:  above the basreliefs
                                                                      		is another plinth or cornice: under the recumbent
                                                                      		fig p 10 G. book a. the basreliefs are separated
                                                                      		by the twisted shafts, p 12.

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