[M.156L]                                                              [M.156]	Frari.  Tombs	156
                                                                      
                                                                      		than the whole work of the St Joseph and the child, and
                                                                      		the latter has been painted with a quaint stupid pattern upon
                                                                      Leaf		the bandage lines, like one of Tintoret’s.  The St Joseph has
This tomb called of Arnoldo Teutonico in 1300 Selva p 145             plinths		had a pattern, but not quite so barbarous.
No 121 is the capital supporting its canopy, a beautiful              L
instance of the pure Byzantine transition leaf plinth - merely        		The work of these tombs makes me think the police house
twisted round the capital with its leaves turning over at the         		will not go much farther back than 1280-1300, and the
angles, sharply ribbed above deeply incised below in the central lobe.		Doges palace tracery not later than 1350:  For this, like
                                                                      		the other tomb, has the same spiral shaft, with round block
                                                                      		filling, and asomewhat quaint spiral base. ( fig 4 or something
                                                                      		like it.  No 119.
                                                                      		Neither of these tombs has crockets.  The Duccio one only
                                                                      		has a flower finial  and that simple:  Its classical heads
                                                                      		are a little like Noahs, one has the long asses ear, intended
                                                                      		for a Faun:  if anything they are more flowing & classical
                                                                      		than Noah.
                                                                      	Tomb with equestrian statue in wood.  Eyes painted, all as like
This sarcoph. the richest type with shelled angles: The leaf plinth   		life as can be - rich three inched sarcophagus, with small
luxuriant, double (-under) lobed yet without roses                    		figures well cut, full featured yet no Bonism  about
                                                                      		them, more like judgment of Solomon:  Rich flowing leaf
                                                                      		plinth, and spiral shafts, small of [diagram] section
                                                                      		- This is Paolo Savelli’s.
                                                                      	Tomb in chapel most to the right of Bernardo family, very delicate
                                                                      		and fanciful is the flow of its double leaf plinth without

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