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DOOR IN CAMPO SAN ZACCARIA S GREGORIO.
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 to-day. Xmas, on
the leaf mouldings of the door of St Stefano (Church)
Apropos of crockets I have now instances enough of the Crockets Worse than the leaves are the croeksts - great want of
canopy without crockets to be compared; i.e. the singular feeling also shown in the over rounded and unnatural
door H. d. book p 21. the one I have got to examine forms of Drapery, finely cut - nor ill disposed for
of church in Campo St Margherita - the canopy of gate or grouping - but always instead of
Abbayia: a parallel one beside its church front - finally the figures emergent from finial - and in
the angelo at Fondancorta dell ‘Angelo- and a pretty Venice and itself utterly vile - I cannot conceive what
little Madonna in house near Campo St Agnese. 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 (We st) in main facade of Church of St Gregorio. No 24
D b. Remark[s]able for its masonry and colouring; the
pieces of red marble exquisitely set: the double key-
stone curious andoblique 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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