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No 181 182 VERONA SAN ZENO PAVIA SAN MICHELE.
These shafts carry arches of three simple square orders, by the line R. gives the section of both. They look
each with decorated architraves - one is drawn on No trenchant and sharp beyond even the usual measure of
the outermost is covered by very light, but most effective Lombard work - as if they had been cut with swords.
basreliefs of jesting subject - two cocks carrying on their On No 181 which is the most important of the nave shaft
shoulders a long staff to which a (fox?) is tied by the capital on the left side of nave looking towards altar.
legs hanging down between them! the street of the foremost San Zeno fig 2 shows the cutting of the angle leaf from
cock lifting its leg at right angles is delicious; a stag the flat side which is insrcibed, and which is not there-
hunt with a century huntsman drawing a bow - the arrow fore cut down into two leaves as the lateral slopes are.
has gone clean through the dog’s throat and is sticking Romanesque and Lombard work: I was much struck by the excessive
there - several capital hunts with dogs; with fruit San Michele Pavia likeness of this St Michele to our Norman churches;
trees between with birds in them: their leaves - con- in the doors and windows especially, the structure being
sidering the early time, singularly well set with the edges altogether the same; the style of rich detail similar
outwards, sharp and deep cut between - snails and frogs in effect - the grey recesses of Sandstone might have been
filling up spaces as if suspended in the air: some saucy at Iffley or Winchester. But the ornaments examined
puppies on their hind legs - two or three nondescript lovely are of course, altogether different; many of
beasts - and finally on the centre of one of the arches them exactly the same as the recognised Byzantine ones;
of the south side (supposing church east and west - and it is of much importance to note the exact differences
my pillar being north side) an elephant and castle - a between St Michele and Byzantine work:
very strange elephant yet as if the carver had seen one. First: The clu[i]stered piers - noted by Lord Lindsay: q.
when does this cu[l]stering system first appear: for it is
one of the principal roots of Gothic effect.
San Michele is a cross church with aisles to the nave
only; the transepts have narrow tall shafts with capitals
at the vaulting
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