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                                                                                Michele Mororini, 1382, the richest in St J. and Paul:  The
                                                                      shafts of niches are of wood.
	The tops of large niches with delicate leaf crockets                 Their brackets two r[t]ows of leafage like St J  and P capital[s]
very beautiful - all of a piece - a large lancet lobed                	with ball below.  The lower range with rib outside
leaf running up each side of the pyramid.                             below curled in, and the upper range with rib inside
There is an approximation in their stilted arch to that               and curled out, and rows with fruit centres interposed:
of the front canopy Doges Palace.                                     The niche shafts are of the leaf capital pointed to top
The early figure crockets are very valuable not extrava-              not florid.  The crockets rude, simple figures awkwardly
gant nor pleasing their profile                                       set above a rose between curled leaves, pinned on to
                                                                      gable of tomb.
                                                                      Round the lozenge of Christ in centre a simple cable, with
	This tomb is the elaborately                                         ribbed leaves laid from above or below on each angle.
rich one on right hand of                                             The face with aquiline nose, much emaciated, but very
choir, Salvatico p 145                                                fine in profile:  less so near from above.  George Rich-
Merely mentioned in Venice, and its                                   mondish:- (keen chiselled aquiline nose) but more so when
lagoons, It is highly finished in                                     the eyes are seen open above in the portrait kneeling.
all its work, and evidently typical of                                The Madonna presenting the kneeling figure to a Crucifix.
much that succeeded.  Chiefly important                               7 brackets have supported as many figures in front of lying
for the incipient pilored crocket                                     figure, now gone - each bracket of wrinkled leaves, crushed
St Michael at top a fine picturesque                                  together with branched ribs a branch to each lobe.  The
finial but the leaf finials of its side pinnacles                     gabled dentil very sharp, occurs on large brackets below.
are twisted and vulgat, like late torch flames, One                   The great brackets under the niches of this tomb - for ob-
would enjoy them more but for their unlucky association.              serve
                                                                      							     vid p 28.

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