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No 118. FRARI TOMB OF DUCCIO
the plain leaf border. On the left, the angle of the class
ical moulding is seen which runs all along the wall horizon
ta,lly at the level of the top of the jamb. topped by the
plan dar[k]k 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 rol[o]l higher
No 118. Top of the arch No 116, Larger. The hair of the
principal figure, as that of the angels flowed like the
Hands crossed as they fall - drapery very simple and leaf rolls, is in reticulated curls like the basket work
lovely, and sharply cut This cap seems to me a How strangely the Byzantines alternate between these two
bandage, tied round the head. principals.
Tomb of Duccio degli alberti the hands the smallest and loveliest
in veining I have seen the coutenance as usual death like
but pure and fair, and in hanging cap of Doge palace
Leaf capitals - no ribs - and round ended leaves capitals - a peculier feature. The letters are rather
more legible than the Doge palace ones. The leaf plinths
round arch are exactly cut on the Vyzantine Police house
system deep incisions - no central rib. Lobes on each side
flattish concave. but the lobes have been instead
of 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 sti[c]cky branches like Andrea
Dandolo’s Neither of theseplinths have the second lobe
projecting below.
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