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                                                                      	transept Madonna of Amiens.  The Madonna features
                                                                      regular:  the drapery very graceful yet it looks more rigid
                                                                      than the Ducal palace sculpture.  It bears date 1345.
                                                                      The twisted shafts of it are the Doge palace section,
                                                                      without the block fillings.
                                                                      The two reliefs on each side of the door are each of under
                                                                      canopies like that at p 72 fig 1 which is the one on the
                                                                      right - over a St Christopher;  The lines which separate
                                                                      the circle with head are not, I think, joints:  only bold
                                                                      projections.  The head larger at fig 2, and the opposite
                                                                      capital to the one drawn in its place, at fig 3.  These
                                                                      capitals are incised only not ribbed (that of the Madonna
                                                                      canopy is sharply rubbed as it turns)  and their shafts
                                                                      are pl[,]ain rounded cable spirals.  The St Christopher below
                                                                      is very barbarous;  in juncto de piedi as Vasari says and
                                                                      horrible feet they are:  and yet it reminds me in many
                                                                      parts of the Noah:  and is I believe only a work by
                                                                      second or third rate men, not much earlier.  The other
                                                                      bas relief has dat[r]e 1377
                                                                      The door between general outline and small figures on
                                                                      capitals p 71 1 Gothic book.  Archivolt section fig 2 p 72
                                                                      1 Pil head fig 4 p 72.  The figures kneeling of course
                                                                      occupy the angle of the square abacus which the mouldings
                                                                      leave undercut.

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