Chancellor of Can Grande della Scala,
died about the year 1330, and his tomb cannot be much later in
date.

The details of this group of buildings are illustrated under the
numbers next in series.

(12.) _Pillars and Lintels of the Western Door of St. Anastasia._
(Photograph.)

The sculpture of the lintel is first notable for its concise and
intense story of the Life of Christ.

1. The Annunciation. (Both Virgin and Angel kneeling.)

2. The Nativity.

3. The Epiphany. (Chosen as a sign of life giver to the
Gentiles.)

4. Christ bearing His Cross. (Chosen as a sign of His
personal life in its entirety.)

5. The Crucifixion.

6. The Resurrection.

Secondly. As sculpture, this lintel shows all the principal
features of the characteristic 13th century design of Verona.

Diminutive and stunted figures; the heads ugly in features, stern
in expression; but the drapery exquisitely disposed in minute but
not deep-cut folds.

(13.) _The Angels on the left hand of the subject of the Resurrection in
No. 12._ (A.)

Drawn of its actual size, excellently.

The appearance of fusion and softness in the contours is not caused
by time, but is intentional, and reached by great skill in the
sculptor, faithfully rendered in the drawing.

(14.) _Sketch of the Capital of the Central Pillar in No. 12._ (R.)

(With slight notes of a 16th century bracket of a street balcony on
each side.)

Drawn to show the fine curvatures and softness of treatment in
Veronese sculpture of widely separated periods.

246. (15.) _Unfinished Sketch of the Castelbarco Tomb, seen from one of
the windows of the Hotel of the "Two Towers."_ (R.)

That inn was itself one of the palaces of the Scaligers; and the
traveler should endeavor always to imagine the effect of the little
Square of Sta. Anastasia when the range of its buildings was
complete; the Castelbarco Tomb on one side, this Gothic palace on
the other, and the great door of the church between. The masonry of
the canopy of this tomb was so locked and dove-tailed that it stood
balanced almost without cement; but of late, owing to the
permission given to heavily loaded carts to pass continually under
the archway, the stones were so loosened by the vibration that the
old roof became unsafe, and was removed, an