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                                                                      No 5.	Verona.  Scala monuments.	23
                                                                      
                                                                      		on the other side given at fig 2: and the ornament at the top of
                                                                      		the level, large, fig 3.  Fig 4 is an example of balcony
                                                                      		foliation;  the tracery bars are a connected - b cut open,
                                                                      Balconies	q which was first balcony, the traceried or - shafted passing into balustraded
                                                                      Scala Tombs	No 5. contains details of the most beautiful of the three
                                                                      		Scala tombs: the simplest of the two detached shrines: I got
                                                                      		into its upper story today:  Tuesday Nov 6th & past a most
                                                                      		happy forenoon in examining it:  the following measures are of
                                                                      		its upper story only:  the lower I have not yet examined:  but
                                                                      		it is a beautiful case of simple superposition:  the eye being
                                                                      		hardly drawn to its lower story at all.
                                                                      		Its plan is a parallelogram of nearly 8 to 9:  From shaft
                                                                      		to shaft at the base of the two pillars of the widest arch
                                                                      		is 9 ft 2 in: and of the narrower arch, 8 ft and ½ an inch
                                                                      		.  The widest arches are those which front the palace and chapel.
                                                                      		Four shafts support the canopy; and there, singularly for Gothic
                                                                      		work of the period, have similar capitals:  most beautiful and
                                                                      		simple in their distant effect and proportion;  nothing can be
                                                                      		more lovely than the way the light touches the central cross
                                                                      		and branching tree, when seen at the proper distance:  i.e. from
                                                                      		ground below.  Seen close fig 1 they are perhaps a little insipid
                                                                      		and wanting in edge & sparkle; though perfectly graceful,
                                                                      		scientific & finished;  their scrolls much in plan, but most
                                                                      		delicately cut.

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