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ON MEDL•EVAL WAR-GALLEYS

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middle of the 14th century.* In this we see plainly the

projecting opera-morta, and the rowers sitting two to a bench,

each with his oar, for these are two-banked. We can also dis-

cern the Latin rudder on the quarter. (See this volume, p. i 19.)

In a picture in the U fíì z j, at Florence, of about the same date, by

Pietro Laurato (it is in the corridor near the entrance), may be

seen a small figure of a galley with the oars also very distinctly

coupled. f Casoni has engraved, after Cristoforo Canale, a

pictorial plan of a Venetian trireme of the 16th century, which

shows the arrangement of the oars in triplets very plainly.

The following cut has been sketched from an engraving of a

Part of a Sea Fight, after Dom. Tintoretto.

picture by Domenico Tintoretto in the Doge's palace, repre-

senting, I believe, the same action (real or imaginary) as

Spinello's fresco, but with the costume and construction of

a later date. It shows, however, very plainly, the projecting

opera-morta, and the arrangement of the oars in fours, issuing

through row-ports in high bulwarks.

28. Midships in the media val galley a castle was erected, of

Spinello's works, according to Vasari, extended from 1334 till late in the century. A religious picture of his at Siena is assigned to 1385, so the frescoes may probably be of about the same period. Of the battle represented I can find no record.

t Engraved in Jal, i. 33o ; with other mediaeval illustrations of the same points.

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