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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 l[h]eaf 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 beauti-
                                                                      ful in its action - projecting on a bracket from the sar-
                                                                      cophagus.  Round these principal figures are eight small
                                                                      bas reliefs, fillingthe angles, four above, representing
                                                                      the acts of Case Grande, 4 below - architectural - of the
                                                                      towns in which they were done;  the battle of Vice[a]nza
                                                                      on the right, I have drawn:  Padua next to the left where
                                                                      Case Grande is not seen. but the soldiers in Comical
                                                                      helmets advance under their oblong shields as high as
                                                                      themselves - with the ladder all the way down - in the
                                                                      two others he is receiving key[g]s of towns;  The fffigy 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 c[v]apital
                                                                      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[w] west end or
                                                                      entrance end

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