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166 134
In Venice and its Lagoons. The bas reliefs on the tomb FRARI PACIFIC TOMB SAN GIOV e PAOLO
are said to be in "creta cotta" The body of the Beato Pac[cf] the hollow and dark spaces being for the most part veiled
fico Bono was laid here in 1437. with cobwebs: the lights loaded with dust - gold remaining
here and there in unseemly patches: mixed with the dull
brick red of the stucco, the colours mildewed or darkened
and the projections rubbed or broken away there is not
a single line of the composition which has its intended
effect - or which can be either felt or judged justly
the angels with instruments have much of the Angelico
quality and appear the best part of the monument: the
B[V]aptism behind is mannered yet graceful - the attendant
angels are numerous: and in their action and in their
full draperies they are more like women, but for
their richly plumed wings. The sarcophagus itself is
the worst - the composition of the resurrection very
vile; the descent into hell somewhat better, but the
arrnagement of the whole thoroughly meagre and bad, and
richly meriting Selva’s condemnation.
To be rea[d]d to-night if for Cicoyna p 30 Housebook 2.
St J and St Paul Apse, p 24 G. book.
Here again we see the curious adaptation of tracery
to upper lights, thinning it: The entire window is the
one which forms the lower half of apse, as at A. opp.
B. is the lower half b opp. In which the double edge of
cusp is conjectural, but I have no doubt is accurate.
p2 p3 being the section across it at p 4
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