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No 5. VERONA SCALA MONUMENTS
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; thetracery bars are a connected - b cut
Ba[l]lconies open, q which was first balcony, and traceried or shafted
passing into balustraded. 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 to-
day: Tuesday Nov 6th and 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 workof 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, where seen at the proper distances: i.e.
from ground below. Seen close fig 1 they are perhaps
a little insipid and wanting in edge and sparkle;
though perfectly graceful, sceintific and finished; their
scrolls m[r]uc[s]h in plan, but most delicately cut.
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