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		St Anast.  Gate Tomb.                                               No 174, 175.
The shafts are round at base	2 " 6                                    
--- --- --- ---   half way up	2 " 6                                   		glaring and fierce;  the St Mark I have drawn on the back
--- --- --- --- at top		2 " 5½ or 5¼                                  		of No 174 fig 1 it is particularly  fine in the
--- --- ---  story are high	5 " 5¼                                    		[matching?] of the canine teeth which form a bar of stone
Their bases - high		0 "10                                             		clear undercut;  they are all robed below, and hold their
and basic plinths the side	1 " 1                                      		books energetically, pointing to them - nothing could be
                                                                      		more spirited or grotesque - though roughly cut.  The
One of the most remarkable points about this tomb is that             		kneeling figure - the portrait already spoken of  is very
the Madonna and child in centre of sarcophagus are represented        		like the still uglier one on the sarcophagus
as sitting in a recess with an advanced throne                        		next Can Signorio, all the ornaments partake of its
and a richly panelled roof, and this recess not half an               		early character - especially note the coss cross with the sun
inch deep is thrown most skilfully back by sculptured                 		moon and stars surrounding it, and in front of the sarcophagus
perspective so that seen from below it is almost deceptive            		All the faces are thoroughly German in character, and the
how strange to find in a work of this date the same                   		repose of the effigy almost lost by its extreme ugliness -
 devices as on the hospital by St John and Paul.                      		its feet are finely dressed - like Michael Angelos - the
                                                                      		entire form felt through the (leathern) shoe.  The iron
                                                                      		bars even are interesting which bind the fabric together -
                                                                      		they have a tracery on them - contemporary showing they
                                                                      		were always thought necessary.
                                                                      		The sections, 1 2 join at a (back of No 174) they
                                                                      		should be opened at b  which is the panel of the evangelists
                                                                      		the mouldings above which goes round said panel except
                                                                      		at the bottom the part of the moulding 2 below the flower
                                                                      		plinth is of the great panels of the sarcophagus;  all
                                                                      		very curiously varied and complicated   The masonry
                                                                      		of the side arch is given in ink on No 175 and one of the
                                                                      		capitals.

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