[M.133L]                                                              [M.133]	Frari Church of. Pacific Tomb: Ca Loredan. L.	133
                                                                      
                                                                      		carried by  two grotesque supporters: with leaves
                                                                      		springing by the seaweedy stems out of their caps:  their
                                                                      		leaves have sharp lobes - and the curled lobe at the top
                                                                      		- they are remarkable for the simplicity and sharpness
                                                                      		of the lobes, running up the stem.
                                                                      		I was to-day also, 10th January, up to the tomb
Note, the two ancient shafts of veined marble - very noble for size   		of Pacifico in the church of the Frari:  Only one or two
which alone are left - having new capitals and  bases, at             		of the figures which ever emerged from the crockets on
the back of the Ca Loredan:  This marble I never saw                  		left:  the angels playing on instruments which emerge
before.  it breaks away in irregular pieces showing large windows     		from the leafage of the architrave are however for the most
grey veins:  like a grey primitive gneiss:  This is chiefly           		part perfect:  They are soft and delicate in expression
the case with one of the shafts only.                                 		- the draperies twisted and wreathed with the leaves, and
                                                                      		the leaves coiled and divided like draperies till one does
                                                                      		not know which is which:  The leaves instead of their
                                                                      		own proper elastic flow look like draperies driven by
                                                                      Curious		the wind:  and they are twisted at the extremities in the
                                                                      marble L.	same manner.  The whole though much overcharged and
                                                                      		of a bad style, would yet be very wonderful as an example
                                                                      		of that style, if it were in stone:  But it is either in
                                                                      		soft brick - or a red stucco - certainly in a whitish red substance
                                                                      		which yields with perfect ease to the  knife: while
                                                                      		the cable moulding under the arch is of wood - as also
                                                                      		I think the stars under the vault:  the supporting plinths
                                                                      		only are of stone.  It has all been gilt or painted and now

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