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                                                                      	grace and science  With Byzantine however rude the
                                                                      cutting every line is lovely;  and the animals or men are
                                                                      placed in any attitudes which secure this exceeding grace
                                                                      sometimes impossible ones - always severe - restrained or
                                                                      languid - with the Romanesque workmen, all the figures
                                                                      show the efforts and (often successful) to express ener-
                                                                      getic action - hunting chiefly - much fighting - but both
                                                                      spirited and true - some of the doge running capitably
                                                                      straining to it, and  he Knight hitting hard;  while
                                                                      yet the faces and drawing are in the last degree bar-
                                                                      barous.  At Venice all is graceful - fixed - or languid.
                                                                      the eastern Torpor is in every line:  the mark of a
                                                                      school formed on severe traditions - and keeping to them
                                                                      and ever likely a desirous to rise beyond them - but with
                                                                      an exquisite sense of beauty and much solemn religious
                                                                                  faith.
                                                                      	I  the Great outer archivolt of St Marks is Byzantine.
                                                                      the law is somewhat broken by its busy domesticity
                                                                      figures engaged in every trade and in the preparation
                                                                      of viands of all kinds - a crowded kind of L[/]ondon Christ-
                                                                      mas scene - interleaved (literally) by the superb balls
                                                                      of leafage  unique in sculpture -  but even this is strong-
                                                                      ly opposed to the  wild war and chase passion of the Lom-
                                                                      bard  Farther:  the Lom ard building is as sharp precise
                                                                      and accurate so that of St Marks is careless:  the Byzan-
                                                                      ties seem to have  been too la y to put their stones to-
                                                                      gether and in general my impression on coming to Verona
                                                                      after four months in Venice

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