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                       St Mark  Gate Tomb.                            	    No 174, 175.
                                                                      
	 The shafts are round at base	2 " 6                                  	glaring and fierce;  the St Mark I have drawn on the back
	--- --- --- ---   half way up	2 " 6                                  of No 174 fog 1 it is particualy  fine in the
	--- --- --- --- at[a] top		2 " 5½ or 5¼ 	                            matching of the canine teeth which form a bar of stone
	--- --- ---  story are high	5 " 5¼                                   clear undercut;  they are all robed below, and hold their
	Their bases - high		0 "10                                            books energetically, pointing to them - nothing could be
	and basic plinths the side		1 " 1                                     more spirited or grotesque - though roughly cut.  The
                                                                      kneeling figure - the portrait already spoken of  is very
                                                                      like the still uglier one on the sarcophagus
                                                                      next Ca Signorino, all the ornaments partake of its
                                                                      early character - especially note the cross with the sun
	One of the most remarkable points about this tomb is that            moon and stars surrounding it, in front of the sarcophagus
the Madonna and child in centre of sarcophagus are re-                All the faces are thoroughly German in character, and the
presented as sitting in a recess with an advanced throne              re;ose of the e[f]ffigy almost lost by its extreme ugliness -
and a richly panelled roof, and this recess not half an               its feet are finely dressed - like Michael Angelos - the
inch deep is thrown most skilfully back by scukptured                 entire form felt through the (leathern) shoe.  The iron
perspective so that seen from below it is almost deceptive            bars even are interesting which bind the fabric together -
how strange to find in a work of this date the same                   they have a tracery on them - contemporary showing they
 decrees as on the hospital by St John and Paul.                      were always thought necessary.
                                                                      The sections, 1 2 join at a (back of No 174) they
                                                                      should be opened at b  which is thepanel of the evengelists
                                                                      the mouldings above which goes round said panel except
                                                                      at the bottom the part of the moulding 2 below the flower
                                                                      plinth is of the great panels of the sarcophagus;  all
                                                                      very curiously varied and complicated   The masonry
                                                                      of the side arch is given in ink on No 175 and one of the
                                                                      capitals.
                                                                      
                                                                      
                                                                      
                                                                      	      

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