[M.206L]                                                              [M.206]	St Marks. Upper story. San Giobbe. Cloister	206
                                                                      
                                                                      		early, and full of interest.  On the south  side:  still fine
                                                                      		but less perfect:  To the front,  very far inferior:
                                                                      		There are three:  only the difference between the north & south
                                                                      		sides not well defined:  Then the cocketing and statues
                                                                      		on the finials are of the latest and most extravagant time
                                                                      		- of most delicate marble, while the archivolts are of Istrian stone.
                                                                      		They are wonderfully cut in and out - but utterly vulgar and
                                                                      		distorted in thought and execution - if I saw them on Milan
                                                                      		cathedral - of which they strongly remind me;  or in a stone
                                                                      		mason’s yard in the New road, I should speak of them with
                                                                      		nothing  but detestation.  They have heads of the commonest
                                                                      		classical types - and every now and then in the cast of their
                                                                      		draperies - reminded me of the statue of George Canning at the
                                                                      		Hostelrie so named of Cold Harbour lane.
                                                                      		The finial statues and upper parts of the finials {which} have
                                                                      		the late bracket ornaments  are of the same date; finally
                                                                      		in the curious niches with cabled shafts leaning against
                                                                      		the curve of the archivolts, on the north side, have been
                                                                      		inserted some modern monstrosities {of statues}, - with storm gutters worked
                                                                      		in the same piece with them, literally fit for nothing but
                                                                      		a ship captain’s garden at Bermondesey.
                                                                      San Giobbe	Its beautiful little cloister has a [diagram] section used in
                                                                      		round arches, but has not altogether a genuine look.  Its

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