[M.158L]                                                              [M.158]	Frari.  Screen & Tombs.  Ca Danieli. L	158
                                                                      
                                                                      		lation - utterly contrary to that of real enjoyment:  They are perhaps
                                                                      		the richest in Venice:  Along the flat panels flow scrolls of
[diagram]                                                             		leafage, found again on the old classical plan - like the archivolts
                                                                      		of St Marks - but now the dull monotony of the [?] eternally repeated
Door of Danieli’s to water                                            		flowing leaf substituted for the rich & sharp fancy of early times.
vid below p 161                                                       		The cherub heads in the capitals are chubby cheeked & commonplace
                                                                      		- the whole is as nearly as possible in the manner of the
                                                                      		passage below the Porta della Carta:  and the capitals on
                                                                      		the inner side of the upper arcade of piazzetta.
                                                                      Foscari	.	The Foscari tomb was an excessive disappointment to me.  Retaining
                                                                      tomb		something of gothic feeling - more especially in the tent above
						Ft in.                                                          		the effigy, which might well have been spared, it is just on
Entire space d - d2	6 " 6	Height from a of a perpen-                  		the limit of the time when the Feeling of the sculptor vanished
a - b ( [diagram] )	0 " 7	dicular on line joining b b2	5              		and gave way to mechanism. The figures of the virtues, and those
b - c ( [diagram] )	2 " 3                                             		of the small angels in front, are well and skilfully carved - the
c - d ( [diagram] )	2 " 7"	The maximum line, having vertical,         		heads are indeed nearly devoid of expression - but they are of good
a - C	3 " 8	across and is only greater than the                       		classical types - the hair finely wreathed, & the hands holding the
b - b2	0 " 9½base line by about 2¼ or 2½ inches                       		drapery gracefully disposed and chiselled: But the effigy, though
y - y2	0 " 9	but this gives an effective appearance                   		it is still so far of the middle ages class as to have both its hands,
b3- x (cusp width)	0 " 4 5/8 of horseshoe                             		is worked in the vilest & most slovenly way:  the face is heavy, vulgar
b3 - y ( [diagram] )	0 "10½ in                                        		& like that of the commonest order of priests now in Venice Italy.
b3 - m about	2 " 0                                                    		- and the whole thing entirely devoid of any feeling more than
m - n	0 " 5¼                                                          		that of producing the effect of a recumbent figure as seen from

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