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[M.23L] [M.23]
No 5. Verona. Scala monuments. 23
on the other side given at fig 2: and the ornament at the top of
the level, large, fig 3. Fig 4 is an example of balcony
foliation; the tracery bars are a connected - b cut open,
Balconies q which was first balcony, the traceried or - shafted passing into balustraded
Scala Tombs No 5. contains details of the most beautiful of the three
Scala tombs: the simplest of the two detached shrines: I got
into its upper story today: Tuesday Nov 6th & past a most
happy forenoon in examining it: the following measures are of
its upper story only: the lower I have not yet examined: but
it is a beautiful case of simple superposition: the eye being
hardly drawn to its lower story at all.
Its plan is a parallelogram of nearly 8 to 9: From shaft
to shaft at the base of the two pillars of the widest arch
is 9 ft 2 in: and of the narrower arch, 8 ft and ½ an inch
. The widest arches are those which front the palace and chapel.
Four shafts support the canopy; and there, singularly for Gothic
work of the period, have similar capitals: most beautiful and
simple in their distant effect and proportion; nothing can be
more lovely than the way the light touches the central cross
and branching tree, when seen at the proper distance: i.e. from
ground below. Seen close fig 1 they are perhaps a little insipid
and wanting in edge & sparkle; though perfectly graceful,
scientific & finished; their scrolls much in plan, but most
delicately cut.
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