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[M.108L] [M.108] Door in Campo San Zaccaria: S. Gregorio 108
the square door, one of the repeated roses has an Indian
corn like projection from flower: with three sharp leaves safe pointing it
vid A p 19 d book. What is this flower meant for.
I found it again today. Xmas, on the leaf mouldings
Apropos of crockets; I have now instances enough of the canopy of the door of St Stefano (Church)
without crockets to be compared; i.e. the singular door H. d. book Crockets Worse than the leaves are the crockets: great want
p 21. the one I have got to examine - of church in Campo St of feeling also shown in the over rounded and unnatural
Margherita - the canopy of Abbazia: a parallel one beside forms of Drapery, finely cut - nor ill disposed for grace or grouping - but
its church front - the angelo at Fondamenta dell ‘Angelo- always [diagram] instead of [diagram] - finally the
and a pretty little Madonna in house near Campo St Agnese. figures in the cusp - (one of the most preposterous
instances of this figure emergent from finial - in Venice
and itself utterly vile - I cannot conceive what it
is meant for, it is like a fisherman more than any
thing saintly.
The finial itself - the base part of it - is huge: and
of the more delicate species of leaf with the
rose in the centre.
Door (West) in main facade of Church of St Gregorio. No 24 D b.
Remarkable for its masonry and colouring; the pieces
of red marble exquisitely set: the double keystone curious
and oblique position of the joint at a.
Still more the gradual diminuation in size of the roses
to the apex - gradual indeed it is not - though on the
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[Version 0.05: May 2008]