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I. Account of a Sepulchral Monument in the Campo Santo, at Pisa; with Observations on the disputed Date of that Building: in a Letter from Sydney Smirke, Esq. F.S.A. addressed to Henry Ellis, Esq. F.R.S., Secretary

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 June 2012

Sydney Smirke Esq.
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I Beg that you will do me the favour to accept the accompanying Drawing, and (should you think fit) to lay it before the Society of Antiquaries. It is a careful representation, made by me at Pisa in 1825, of a sepulchral Monument of the date 1359, preserved in one of the chapels of the Campo Santo. As a work of art this piece of sculpture has considerable merit; there is some elegance in its general form, and great delicacy in the details; and the date, inscribed upon a fillet of the pedestal, gives it additional interest in the eye of an Antiquary.

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Archaeologia , Volume 23 , 1831 , pp. 1 - 6
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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1831

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page 1 note a See Plate I.

page 2 note b A. D. MCCLXXVIII.

Tempore duc. Federigi Archiepi. Pis.

Et duc. terlati potestatis,

Operario Orlando Sardella,

Johanna Magistro edificante.

page 2 note c D. Ti.. O. de Medicis Arcliiep'o Pisano Antonius Jacobi alrai Templi Pisani Operarius sacri hu'j. et inter mortales præclarissimi sepulchri opus mi. arcubus XXVIII Q 3 p'foratis fenestris marmoreis, in. Ann. sua diligentia perfici curavit. D. I. A. N. M.CCCC.LXIIII.

page 3 note d The stone, darkly shaded, extends four feet five inches into the wall; is one foot one inch and a quarter in height, and is of the whole thickness of the jamb.

page 5 note e “Perfici curavit.”

page 5 note f “I.I.I.I. arcubus, xxvin que perforatis fenestris.”

page 5 note g Doubts have been entertained whether these openings were ever glazed, but I was enabled to satisfy myself on this point by detecting a piece of stained glass of an orange colour, which adhered to the tracery of one of the older windows, and probably yet remains there.