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[M.158L] [M.158] Frari. Screen & Tombs. Ca Danieli. L 158
lation - utterly contrary to that of real enjoyment: They are perhaps
the richest in Venice: Along the flat panels flow scrolls of
[diagram] leafage, found again on the old classical plan - like the archivolts
of St Marks - but now the dull monotony of the [?] eternally repeated
Door of Danieli’s to water flowing leaf substituted for the rich & sharp fancy of early times.
vid below p 161 The cherub heads in the capitals are chubby cheeked & commonplace
- the whole is as nearly as possible in the manner of the
passage below the Porta della Carta: and the capitals on
the inner side of the upper arcade of piazzetta.
Foscari . The Foscari tomb was an excessive disappointment to me. Retaining
tomb something of gothic feeling - more especially in the tent above
Ft in. the effigy, which might well have been spared, it is just on
Entire space d - d2 6 " 6 Height from a of a perpen- the limit of the time when the Feeling of the sculptor vanished
a - b ( [diagram] ) 0 " 7 dicular on line joining b b2 5 and gave way to mechanism. The figures of the virtues, and those
b - c ( [diagram] ) 2 " 3 of the small angels in front, are well and skilfully carved - the
c - d ( [diagram] ) 2 " 7" The maximum line, having vertical, heads are indeed nearly devoid of expression - but they are of good
a - C 3 " 8 across and is only greater than the classical types - the hair finely wreathed, & the hands holding the
b - b2 0 " 9½base line by about 2¼ or 2½ inches drapery gracefully disposed and chiselled: But the effigy, though
y - y2 0 " 9 but this gives an effective appearance it is still so far of the middle ages class as to have both its hands,
b3- x (cusp width) 0 " 4 5/8 of horseshoe is worked in the vilest & most slovenly way: the face is heavy, vulgar
b3 - y ( [diagram] ) 0 "10½ in & like that of the commonest order of priests now in Venice Italy.
b3 - m about 2 " 0 - and the whole thing entirely devoid of any feeling more than
m - n 0 " 5¼ that of producing the effect of a recumbent figure as seen from
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