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[M.186L] [M.186] Ducal palace. S of C. 186
5 Gula sine ordine sum. More sharply cut, but face
quite regular, and hardly distorted by the gnawing: Chicken
by the same.
6. Superbia (pre asselolo) A Knight like the other
but the long ears more developed; the face firm and features
deep cut; not unlike Colleone's statue; More effective
than the old one, and far less truly expressive of pride.
7. Ira crudelis est in me. This is a fine figure (in the
way that a modern Sir Charles Bell study is fine) at least
in the distorted countenance and wildly scattered hair, but
the drapery utterly vile and the hands tearing it open, stiff
and nerveless.
8. Avaricia impletor: quite tame - no skinny neck nor
hungry stare. Two boys on the other - the eye ball is
smooth in all these figures, except accidia, which is drilled
The Thirty First. This is a cheap restoration or copy of the Arion
one on the other side. It is especially vile; its figures large, brutal
and stupid - utterly blundering and joyless; The inferiority of feeling
is perhaps most seen in the bears paws; and the clumsy set of
the Knight's foot in the stirrup, None of the animals are to be
made out if one had not seen the other column before, and the
attempt at the grotesque is a more total failure than I have
yet met with. Common modern stone masonry is not worse.
Vid M. 2 p 89.
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