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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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