165						133
                                                                      
                                                                      
                                                                                          FRARI CHURCH OF  PACIFIC TOMB:  CA LOREDAN  L.
                                                                      carried by  two grotesque supporters:  with leaves springing
                                                                      by the sea weedy stems out of their caps:  then leaves
                                                                      have sharp lobes - and the curled lobe at the top -
                                                                      they are remarkable for the simplicity and sharpness
Note, the too  ancient shafts of veined marble - very noble           of the lobes, running up the stem.
for size which alone are left - having new capitals and                I was to-day also 10 January up to the tomb of Pacifico
 b[n]ases, at the back of the Ca Loredan:  This marble I              in the church of the Frari:  Only one or two of the figures
never saw less - it breaks away in irregular pieces                   which ever em[s]erged from the crockets on left:  the angels
showing large windows   grey views:  like a grey                      playing on instruments which emerge from the leafage of
primitive gneiss:  This is chiefly the case with one                  the architrave are however for the most part perfect:
of the shafts only.                                                   They are soft and delicate in expression - the draperies
                                                                      twisted an[d]d 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 the wind:  and
                                                                      they are twisted at the extremities in the same manner.
                                                                      The whole though  uch 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

[Version 0.05: May 2008]