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[M.154L] [M.154]
No 118. Frari. Tomb of Duccio 154
the plain leaf border: On the left, the angle of the classical
moulding is seen which runs all along the wall horizontally
at the level of the top of the jamb. topped by the plain dark
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 roll higher
No 118. Top of the arch No 116, Larger. The hair of the principal
Hair. figure, as that of the angels flowed like the leaf rolls, is
Hands crossed as they fall. Drapery very simple & lovely, & sharply cutIts management in reticulated curls like the basket work. How strangely
This cap seems to me a bandage tied round the head. Reticulation the Byzantines alternate between these two principals.
of Byzantines
Tomb of Duccio degli Alberti: the hands the smallest & loveliest
in veining I have seen. the countenance as usual death like
but pure & fair, and in hanging cap of Doges palace capitals
Leaf capitals - no ribs - and round ended leaves [diagram] - a peculiar feature. The letters are rather more legible than
the Doges palace ones. The leaf plinths round arch are exactly
cut on the Byzantine. Police house - system deep incisions
- no central rib. lobes on each side flattish concave. but the lobes
have become [diagram] instead of [diagram] 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 sticky branches like Andrea Dandolo’s.
Neither of these plinths have the second lobe projecting below.
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