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DUCAL PALACE S f C.
4. A woman with a lamb in her lap, and a pendant veil
this veil often occurring is like that of the pear
carrier in Piazzo Gorzoli’s fresco (Humanita Selva)
5. Charitas, A woman with her lap full of (apples?) giv-
ing one to a little boy who stretches out his arm for it
across the gap in the leafage, clear undercut.
6. A female crowned with a sword: q (H Gunotigia Silva)
7. A man with the pine hanging up a book and compasses
just like those at p 25 Palace book, q (Prudenza Silva)
8. Speranza in Deo" A figure very devotional and reverent
in expression, holds up its hands praying to a band coming
out of the sun. fig 1 p 30 1 pal. book.
Doge’s Palace A casual glance as one leaning against the balustrade of
the Ponto della Paglia is enough to suggest a difference
in epoch between the upper and lower arcade: The stones
of the great lower arches are grey, weatherworn and much
distorted the cornice beared and sunk into different level
while the upper shafts are golden, firm and smooth: The
children in the lower capitals have a peculiar living look
never reached in scukpture with so slight labour, after
the beginning of the 14th century: they are quaint and
breasts
nad in character; sharp in feature - their hearts flat
and stiff, and like those of men: their eyes drilled
deep in the iris, their hear either drill holed - or
flat and stiff to their foreheads - and their lips edgy;
but their expression childlike:
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