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                                                                      		or Harfleur;  no perceptible difference, while every town
                                                                      		in Italy has a separate style.  Note also the vile
                                                                      		affectation of the statue of Madonna under central niche
                                                                      		between doors, while the mere sculpture is very good;
                                                                      		but so low in feeling so far inferior even to the Bon affectation,
                                                                      		which has still some chasteness and dignity
                                                                      		about it, here all lost in French attitude and drapery
                                                                      Effigies	The Effigies of the Popes in the cathedral are miserably
                                                                      		poor.  The tabernacle of Jean struck me from its excessive
                                                                      		foolishness as compared to Verona - the Unquiet pastry
                                                                      		cook filigree look of it - the undetermined system of
                                                                      		support, as if were all stuck together with glue - the
                                                                      		curious semipiers semi buttresses;  the shafts without
                                                                      		capitals, the arches without beginning or spring - the 
                                                                      		irregularly scattered ornament  How different from the
                                                                      		nobly organised simplicity of Verona.  Yet its parts
                                                                      		are pretty;  two angels at each end - restored - but
                                                                      		their wings, deliciously thrown, and the gables of the
                                                                      		small arches pierced with pretty starry six foils.
                                                                      		A Romanesque altar - once the high altar - is quite invaluable
                                                                      		in comparison.  It has whirling leaves;  almost
                                                                      Whirling	Byzantine in feeling with in one case, a small bird,
                                                                      leaves		in the other a doubtful beast, set in the middle of
                                                                      		each wheel - Grotesque and intensely ugly heads holding
                                                                      		the stems in their mouths, and their

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