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                                                                      		of the Baptistery of the Duomo - the richest piece of
                                                                      		colour decoration I have yet seen in Italy - a square
                                                                      		building carrying a cupola, filled by 5 circles of
                                                                      		Paradise - about 40 figures in each, larger of course
                                                                      		at circumference.  Christ in the centre:  the whole one
                                                                      		sphere of effulgence:  the canopy worked in Venetian
                                                                      		way with leaf and rose on the ogee of fig 1 which
                                                                      		forms the round arch of the main spar;  supported by
                                                                      		pinnacles with pannels full of leafage, and on leaf
                                                                      		brackets:  the gable above having two angels in medallion
                                                                      		but most gloriously surrounded by painted angels on the
How opposed this placing of colour to the Elgian placing              		flat surface so that the medallion in intaglio only
of relief the highest in the shade - the leaves in the                		gives vigour to and centralizes the group - the {flat}
panels are all gilded in one of the tombs of St                       		ground all gold - the angels in grey robes;  golden glories
Antonio they have had exquisite blue ground.                          Placing of	floating upwards on each side of the arch, and all these
                                                                      Colours	light colours being put on the face;  deep colour with
                                                                      		blue put under the canopy {in the shade}!  Here also a
                                                                      		curious paintings from the Revelations - the beast
                                                                      		with seven heads and 10 crowns - drawn as bps mitres
                                                                      		the locusts very clever:  The walls occupied by the life
                                                                      Frescos by	of Christ far finer in colour and crowd than anything I
                                                                      Giusti		have yet seen as decoration;  nor despicable in higher
                                                                      of Padua	qualities.  The crucifixion especially fine, and much
                                                                      		of the landscape
                                                                      Verona		Comparing the arabesques and sculpture of the
                                                                      Romanesque	Duomo here with St Marks, the first thing that strikes
                                                                      		me is the low relief - the second the greater motion and
                                                                      		spirit, with infinitely less

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