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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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