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No 13. DUCAL PALACE LOWER ARCADE.
between them and the pilatser; but every leaf is bent
and waved like reality: and the surface so smooth that
it cannot be believed it was ever chiselled: - smooth
almost to lustre: except one leaf thrown to the front
or outer angle on purpose: which is curved with its entire
reticulation: cross bars and all: in raised ribs, from its
undulating surface: I never saw anything so far carried
in imitative sculpture: The love of surface tracery has
much to do with it - for exactly the same thing is done
with the veins of the figure, which are almost painfully
distinct The type of form about the chest, unless
intended for the contracted form of an old man, is very
weak and poor: miserable if compared with Greek types:
The moulding of the lower arches is the weak point
of the architecture, as the anatomy is of the scu,pture;
It is certainly mean and harsh;[p] only saved by its grand
tore - the row od diamonds is far too small - and wholly
ineffective - acid and greeting instead of energetic: The
A cornice on last page 1 is fine, I find the height of
its upper level a from the ground is 20 ft 3 in I found
it 20 ft 4 in with a loose line.
Round shafts No 13 Church of St John and Paul: Note further, that
this interior of this church has pure round pillars com-
posed of flat sepeatate stones, as in margin, with flat
capitals; and that nothing can
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