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[M.114L] [M.114]
No 94 95 6-7-8-9. Ducal palace. Centre to sea 114
transverse joints are very neat and clean, not the eighth of an
inch wide; but the longitudinal at side are rough, and
occasion the jagging & apparent inaccuracy: the 92-3-4
[diagram] were cut with ivory knife beside dentil: the 91 more
difficult to crush into place, is a little too narrow - ¼ of
inch each side perhaps: it is the shape however of the uppermost
piece of stone within the mortar: and note especially the
want of symmetry in its two sides; in a thing so easily
made symmetrical this is very remarkable, and made one
trace the whole.
No 95. Rough tracing from the balcony of Doge’s Palace towards
Piazzetta - its principle the same as the other vide p 102, and No 78.
No 96 Beaver of the casque with bird pecking its bosom: on wall of
house no 43. The wall of course later than the house.
No 97, 98. Describe the central canopy of facade to sea
of Doge’s palace. I am much disappointed by its examination
- the only truly fine thing in it is the sweeping breadth
of dogtoothed circle figs 1 & 2 no 97 The rest
+ and by its composition is La Scala becoming Milan - only saved by its severity
which is throughly good. and sweet setting in of colour in small trefoiled arches. +
A bad statue of St Michael by Canova on the east side is
scrawled all over with pencilled names (chiefly Italian and
German - till from white it has become grey.
Farther details of the Gothic canopy are given in No 99.
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[Version 0.05: May 2008]