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[diagram]                                                             No 6.	Verona.  Scala Monuments	26
Measures of lower story of Can Signorio.                              
                                                                      		(I think) a red ground, the bas reliefs richly gilt & painted also
Round the shafts at base:	3 " 6¼                                      		The flow of the leaves thoroughly fine;  far above northern Gothic
Interval between shaft and shaft	4. " 1½                              		work:  the whole sarcophagus look cin.cento in style.
One side of hexagonal basic plinth of shafts	       11.               		No 6.  Fig 1.  Base (with section) of one of the pillars of
Interval between angle & angle of these bases	3 " 5                   		the six detached niches round; already carefully drawn, each
Interval between round shaft & outside square                         		with its statue as large as life:  This base is the real size
pilaster of niche	2. " 11½                                            		or about it:  the measure being (two dots separating ft and
Across the monument from angle of basic                               		inches)  Height of capital alone, 7 inch and ¾:  Height of
plinth to angle of opposite.	8 " 7½                                   		simple shaft  4 "6 - circumference of do 1 " 3¾  To ground
                                                                      		from lower fillet of capital 4 " 11¾  The arch of the niche
[diagram]	Arrangement of small panel and outer                        		is slightly stilted, its foil being flat and falling equally within
	moulding of the round arches of the                                  		the great arch, their measures give the line of the great arch
	six niches round tomb of Can Signorio                                		i e. a - b (opposite) 1 " 7½  c - c2  11 in:  d - e 6 in
	F. Vide section on back of No                                        		d - f 9¾ in a - d 7¼in.
                                                                      		Fig. 2:  Section of mouldings on capital abacus head:
                                                                      		Each side of the abacus is 6¾ in: the other measures were
                                                                      		inaccessible:  the dotted lines are the lozenges of the enclosing
                                                                      		arch:  but the section is better and more truly given on the back
                                                                      		of No 2.  Vid: [gap] only note that the four arches of the
                                                                      		niche appear to be built of four simple slabs of stone of
                                                                      		the thickness a b (fig 2 No 6) and a dome very flat
                                                                      		of plaster, fills up the roof under the pinnacle, its corners
                                                                      		coming rudely down into the angle at a.

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