At Notebook M2 p.122 Sant’ Anastasia is for Ruskin ‘the most perfect example of Italian Gothic - quite pure, which I have yet seen’.
See Ruskin’s comment on the perfection of the use of colour in the bases of Sant’ Anastasia at Works, 9.334.
The Castelbarco tomb - Ruskin’s ‘Gate Tomb’ is shown to the left of the church in the photograph below:
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For details of photograph see here |
The interior of the church is shown below:
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For details of photograph see here and here |
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