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The frescoes of the baptistery at Padua probably started in the mid 1370s are attributed to Giusto de’ Menabuoi, sometimes called Giusto Padovano, Giusto the Paduan, though he was born in Florence; the patron was Fina Buzzacarina whose tomb is there. See Ruskin’s note in Notebook N p.53L for the whole of this passage. There do not seem to be any published references to it by Ruskin.
Murray (1847a) p.247 reads:
The Baptistery is a Lombard building of the 12th century, belonging to what may be termed the second class of these buildings; namely those created in imitation of the baptisteries of the first period of romanesque architecture, such as at Novara and Brescia, and which, when unaltered, are invariably of the Corinthian order, and almost as invariably are said to have been heathen temples. This baptistery belongs to the second, or imitative, class, of which the traveller will find many other examples (as at Parma and Cremona). Walls and cupola are entirely covered in fresco, created at the expense of Fina Buzzacarina, wife of the elder Franceso di Carrara. Both Giusti and Aldighiero di Zevio are thought to have been concerned in the work. They are in the style which imitated the ancient mosaics.
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