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194 back of 157 195 158
FRARI SCREEN & TOMBS CA DANIELI L
lation - utterly contrary to that of real enjoyment: They
are perhaps the richest in Venice: Along the flat panels
flow scrolls of leafage, found again on the old classical
plan - like the archivoles of St Marks - but now the
Door of Danieli’s to water vid dull monotony of the eternally repeated flowing leaf sub-
below p 161 stituted for the rich and sharp fancy of early
times. The cherub heads in the capitals are chubby
cheeked and commonplace - the whole is as nearly as
possible in the manner of the passage below the Porta dell
Carta: and the capitals on the inner side of the
upper arcade of piazzetta.
Entire space d - d2 6 " 6 Height from a of a per- Foscari tomb. The Foscari tomb was an excessive disappointment to me.
a-b ( - ) 0 " 7 pendicular on line Retaining something of Gothic feeling, more especially
b - c ( - ) 2 " 3 joining b b2 5 in the tent above the ffigy, which might well have been
c - d ( - ) 2 / 7 sparedl it is just on the limit of the time when the Feel-
a - c 3 " 8 The maximum line, having ing the sculptor v[c]anished and gave way to mechanism. The
b - b2 0 " 9½ vertical across and figures of the virtues, and those of the small angels
y - y2 0 " 9 is only greater than in front, are well and skilfully carved - the heads
bz- x (cusp width) 0 " 4 5/8 the base line by about are indeed nearly devoid of expression, but they are of
bz - y ( - ) 0 "10½ in 2¼ or 2½ inches but this good classical types - the hear finely wreathed, and the
bz - m about 2 " 0 gives an effective appea hands holding the drapery gracefully disposed and chiselled
m - n 0 " 5¼ ance of horseshoe. But the effigy, though it is still so far of the middle
ages class as to have both its hands, is worked in
the vilest and most slovenly way: the face is heavy
vulgar and like that of the commonest order of priests
now in Italy - and the whole thing entirely devoid of any
feeling more than that of producing the effect of a recum-
bent figure as seen from
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