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transept Madonna of Amiens. The Madonna features
regular: the drapery very graceful yet it looks more rigid
than the Ducal palace sculpture. It bears date 1345.
The twisted shafts of it are the Doge palace section,
without the block fillings.
The two reliefs on each side of the door are each of under
canopies like that at p 72 fig 1 which is the one on the
right - over a St Christopher; The lines which separate
the circle with head are not, I think, joints: only bold
projections. The head larger at fig 2, and the opposite
capital to the one drawn in its place, at fig 3. These
capitals are incised only not ribbed (that of the Madonna
canopy is sharply rubbed as it turns) and their shafts
are pl[,]ain rounded cable spirals. The St Christopher below
is very barbarous; in juncto de piedi as Vasari says and
horrible feet they are: and yet it reminds me in many
parts of the Noah: and is I believe only a work by
second or third rate men, not much earlier. The other
bas relief has dat[r]e 1377
The door between general outline and small figures on
capitals p 71 1 Gothic book. Archivolt section fig 2 p 72
1 Pil head fig 4 p 72. The figures kneeling of course
occupy the angle of the square abacus which the mouldings
leave undercut.
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