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[M2.118L] [M2.118] 118
Side narrow arch of St Anast. Gate tomb Verona March 11th 1851.
[diagram] a b span 3 " 8
c C 4 " 0 instead of tall vid note at p 60 1 N. book while in projecting
p c (-) 2 " 4½ balconies they are still as usual. In the upper
p p2 0 " 3½ story the upper plinth is the same, but the lower has a
p a (-) 2 " 0¼ Verona bracket moulding. The great brackets I examined the tomb
The joints seen in sketch of masonry - are about 5½ inches above the gate at St Anastasia to-day March 11th The
below p and 4½ below c. state of art is most singular; In By zantine work the
Measures of side arch mouldings at p 2 Verona book. angels and most of the saints show some aim - if not
Archivolt or abac. heads p 4 Verona book the abacus side attainment of beauty - or if they are ugly it is severity
a b is 1 " 1 and the height of the capital including gloom or emaciation. But here, the figures are square
its lower roll also 1 1 so it is cut out of a square featured hand cut - stern - everyday life - and full of
Both it and the shaft are of singularly coarse but pure extraordinary energy; the effigy itself is a straight
white sugary marble, while the first block above is either forward and ugly portrait of a large & coarsely featured
Istrian stone or a very light red Verona. though powerful head; a still more grotesque {I may say}
Measures of great arch to front side p 5 Verona book. in its excessive homeliness and ugliness portrait is given
a b 3 " 1½ on the sarcophagus below - then kneeling to the Madonna -
b b2 4 " 1 the features of the Infant Christ being very nearly as
C c 5 " 0¼ hard and work-a-day as those of the old man but all living
b c 3 " 3½ or 3¼ and that to propose knit browed and full of meaning: On
b u vertical 2 " 6¼ one end of the sarcophagus an angel - on the other a
a a2 (span) 7 "10 {chain} mail armed knight - thrusting their lances into the
The cusp finial ay p 6 Verona book in profile behind it is jaws of two dragons; both figures stunted in an extraordinary
regularly missed with a fleur de lis in front. degree. about four heads high only;
but and as ugly as can be, but full of force and the dragons
biting and writhing venomously; then, for the emblems of
the evangelists at the angles they are beyond comparison
the most fiery beasts I have seen used for the type
the eagle with its beak thrown up and its eye
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[Version 0.05: May 2008]