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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 wreated 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 applid
                                                                      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[y] like
                                                                      those of the St John and Paul above, and is not raised at
                                                                      the extremi[o]t[i]y 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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