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                                                                      		at fig 2 and the bead instead of stopping on the bracket
                                                                      		is carried down a long square pilaster.
                                                                      		The joints marked r. r. r. in the right ones.
                                                                      St Anastasia Verona:  It is the most perfect example of Italian Gothic -
                                                                      		quite pure, which I have yet seen:  but instead of being
                                                                      		spoiled by the wreathed double fillet capital, its fault
                                                                      		is that both its bases and capitals are too flat:  the
                                                                      		latter being composed of a single range of rose and leaf
                                                                      		plinths - varied in each cap: and in one or two cases,
                                                                      		having the peculiar long seed vessel in the centre of St
                                                                      		Stefano, etc;  but the leaves much sharper and finer;
                                                                      		and everything more skilfully as well as more boldly applied
                                                                      		The shafts massy cylinders the bases have magnificent
                                                                      		leaves, the most elaborate and varied I have come across;
                                                                      		but not very graceful in plan:  for the basic section
                                                                      		is small and the roll narrow in proportion to its great
                                                                      		width of diameter, the leaf is therefore very flat like
                                                                      		those of the St John and Paul choir, and is not raised at
                                                                      		the extremity but in the centre;  the boss being turned
                                                                      		either into a rose or a bunch of fruit - or  other
                                                                      		flower - with various degrees of felicity:  some of the
                                                                      		designs very happy:  all rich and bold to a degree
                                                                      		never found at Venice, and only objectionable in general
                                                                      		outline and because the triangular shape is not taken
                                                                      		advantage of - the form being not treated as a simple
                                                                      		leaf but as a group of ornamentation.  At the north side
                                                                      		of the choir is a monument

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