SECTION XXXIX. The head of the Noah on the Ducal Palace, evidently

worked in emulation of this statue, has the same profusion of flowing

hair and beard, but wrought in smaller and harder curls; and the veins

on the arms and breast are more sharply drawn, the sculptor being

evidently more practised in keen and fine lines of vegetation than in

those of the figure; so that, which is most remarkable in a workman of

this early period, he has failed in telling his story plainly, regret

and wonder being so equally marked on the features of all the three

brothers that it is impossible to say which is intended for Ham. Two of

the heads of the brothers are seen in the Plate; the third figure is not

with the rest of the group, but set at a distance of about twelve feet,

on the other side of the arch which springs from the angle capital.

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