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                                                                      No 179, 180.
                                                                      
                                                                      		couch and figure, the whole way from the shoulder to the
                                                                      		feet.  The Sarcophagus has above it a leaf plinth which
                                                                      		for composition I think unrivalled, figs 1 and 2  No 179
                                                                      		give an angle of it - underneath in centre one of the
                                                                      		usual Christ’s half figure out of tomb hard, but fine - 
                                                                      		the Madonna still left on one side - most beautiful
                                                                      		in its action - projecting on a bracket from the sarcophagus.
                                                                      		Round these principal figures are eight small
                                                                      		basreliefs, filling the angles, four above, representing
                                                                      		the acts of Can Grande, 4 below - architectural - of the
                                                                      		towns in which they were done;  the battle of Vicenza
                                                                      		on the right, I have drawn:  Padua next to the left where
                                                                      		Can Grande is not seen. but the soldiers in Conical
                                                                      		helmets advance under their oblong shields as high as
                                                                      		themselves - with the ladder all the way down - in the
                                                                      		two others he is receiving keys of towns;  The effigy on
                                                                      		horseback on the top is much broken;  it has been
                                                                      		finished on both sides - the armour richly chased - the 
                                                                      		crest thrown back is of a separate piece, bound on with
                                                                      		iron.
                                                                      San Zeno.	The best examples of the peculiar truncated early capital
                                                                      		I have seen are the two shafts which carry the arches of
                                                                      		the entrance to the crypt at San Zeno.  One is set behind
                                                                      		the other.  The section of both shafts is the truncated 4
                                                                      		foil. fig 1 No 180  but they are set on their bases as in
                                                                      		fig 2. when F. is the front towards the west end or
                                                                      		entrance end

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