[M.154L]                                                              [M.154]
                                                                      No 118.	Frari.  Tomb of Duccio	154
                                                                      
                                                                      		the plain leaf border:  On the left, the angle of the classical
                                                                      		moulding is seen which runs all along the wall horizontally
                                                                      		at the level of the top of the jamb.  topped by the plain dark
                                                                      		band of marble on which the archivolt falls. The stilt is
                                                                      		however a little too short, it should be just the breadth
                                                                      		of the leaf roll higher
                                                                      	No 118.  Top of the arch No 116, Larger.  The hair of the principal
                                                                      Hair.		figure, as that of the angels flowed like the leaf rolls, is
Hands crossed as they fall.  Drapery very simple & lovely, & sharply cutIts management	in reticulated curls like the basket work.  How strangely
This cap seems to me a bandage tied round the head.                   Reticulation	the Byzantines alternate between these two principals.
                                                                      of Byzantines
                                                                      Tomb of Duccio degli Alberti: the hands the smallest & loveliest
                                                                      		in veining I have seen. the countenance as usual death like
                                                                      		but pure & fair, and in hanging cap of Doges palace capitals
Leaf capitals - no ribs - and round ended leaves [diagram]            		- a peculiar feature.  The letters are rather more legible than
                                                                      		the Doges palace ones.  The leaf plinths round arch are exactly
                                                                      		cut on the Byzantine.  Police house - system deep incisions
                                                                      		- no central rib. lobes on each side flattish concave.  but the lobes
                                                                      		have become [diagram]  instead of [diagram] and are massy and solid:  a
                                                                      		rose with fruit stands stiffly out of the central one, its stalk
                                                                      		marked on the leaf.  The extrenal pediment moulding has
                                                                      		acorns instead with sticky branches like Andrea Dandolo’s.
                                                                      		Neither of these plinths have the second lobe projecting below.

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