SECTION XL. It may be observed, as a farther evidence of the date of the

group, that, in the figures of all the three youths, the feet are

protected simply by a bandage arranged in crossed folds round the ankle

and lower part of the limb; a feature of dress which will be found in

nearly every piece of figure sculpture in Venice, from the year 1300 to

1380, and of which the traveller may see an example within three hundred

yards of this very group, in the bas-reliefs on the tomb of the Doge

Andrea Dandolo (in St. Mark's), who died in 1354.

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