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                                                                      		     No 118.   FRARI   TOMB OF DUCCIO
                                                                      		the plain leaf border.  On the left, the angle of the class
                                                                      ical moulding is seen which runs all along the wall horizon
                                                                      ta,lly at the level of the top of the jamb.  topped by the
                                                                      plan dar[k]k band of marble on which the archivolt falls. The
                                                                      		stilt is however, a little too short, it should be
                                                                      just the breadth of the leaf rol[o]l higher
                                                                      No 118.  Top of the arch No 116, Larger.  The hair of the
                                                                      		principal figure, as that of the angels flowed like the
		Hands crossed as they fall - drapery very simple and                leaf rolls, is in reticulated curls like the basket work
lovely, and sharply cut    This cap seems to me a                     How strangely the Byzantines alternate between these two
bandage, tied round the head.                                         principals.
                                                                      
                                                                      Tomb of Duccio degli alberti the hands the smallest and loveliest
                                                                      in veining I have seen the coutenance as usual death like
                                                                      but pure and fair, and in hanging cap of Doge palace
		Leaf capitals - no ribs - and round ended leaves                    capitals - a peculier feature.  The letters are rather
                                                                      more legible than the Doge palace ones.  The leaf plinths
                                                                      round arch are exactly cut on the Vyzantine Police house
                                                                      system deep incisions - no central rib. Lobes on each side
                                                                      flattish concave.  but the lobes have been       instead
                                                                      of             and are massy and solid:  a rose with
                                                                      fruit stands stiffly out of the central one, its stalk
                                                                      marked on the leaf.  The extrenal pediment moulding
                                                                      has acorns instead with sti[c]cky branches like Andrea
                                                                      Dandolo’s  Neither of theseplinths have the second lobe
                                                                      projecting below.

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