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                                                                      		equestrian, whose surrounding foliation crocketing is the most
                                                                      		luxuriant I have seen except that of the Beato Pacifico;
                                                                      		It is put - horse, canopy and all within a huge lozenge
                                                                      		or multifoiled figure, composed by a thick trunk of a tree
                                                                      		which throws out enormous leaves at intervals inserting
                                                                      		the stalks into their centres like some Early
                                                                      		English ornaments or early French - the cathedral of Mans,
                                                                      		for instance - copied in Sainte chapelle;  but the leaves
                                                                      		uselessly rich - a middle point between the crocketing of
                                                                      		St Marks and the early English - the form of the latter,
                                                                      		the feeling of the former.
                                                                      		So again I have noticed all the cinque cento work here -
                                                                      		formed on Romanesque plans:  and in general I have been
                                                                      		struck with the remarkable power in composition shown in
                                                                      		every style:  which is shown by this Veronese workmen;
                                                                      		I was disappointed in the Effigy of Can Grande to-day:
                                                                      Can Grande	the face is huge featured coarse, and with an unmeaning
                                                                      		smile on it - but seem from below, the general placing of
                                                                      		the figure is touching beyond description - not a fold -
                                                                      		not a line is lost, no one wrong - and this may perhaps
                                                                      		seem still more singular, considering that the figure is
                                                                      		entirely separate from the couch on which it is placed.
                                                                      		it is worked in a separate piece and the whole body forms
                                                                      		a kind of arch - from the feet to the shoulder - which 
                                                                      		bend to the pillow - the latter forming the shortest arm
                                                                      		of an ogee curse so that there is from three to four
                                                                      		inches of daylight between the

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