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[M.19L] [M.19] Milan. St Eustorgio. Duomo. Verona. Duomo. 19
at its roof, or centre, coinciding, as if struck with three semicircles
* pouring water into a vase: the water cut in a wavy detached stream afterwards passing into right lines, or in places into a reversed curve
of the most delicate kind.
Tomb of San Pietro Martire: a most glorious piece of Gothic in church
Pisan sculpture of St Eustorgio at Milan: statues standing in front of
the square red pillars with flowing foliage capitals: about
½ the size of life - very Nino da Fiesole like - complete
sculpture painting, with exquisite costume; the Temperantia
Water carving with a veil and ivy crown * and the Obedientia, with a
cattle yoke, praeminently beautiful: Much spoiled by
gilding above: A bas relief of a ship with ropes all
undercut out of the marble, remarkable for its picturesqueness
and depth.
Variety Note the bad variety mentioned at p 14 l of the other volume
respecting cathedral of Milan: as if the architect had tried
one niche and not liked it & then tried another: how different
from the determined variety which is always a mere modulation
of a fixed design.
Capitals. A most pure & simple type in the small double shafted, and
superimposed cloister of Duomo Verona, p 43 N. The profile
of the capitals on either side, ie. either the dotted line a a b
is a pure right line, as below at c. which is a section
through b, the curvature being entirely given by the bevelled
angles.
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