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25 July 1912 — Ca’ Capello, Venice | |
Thursday. 25th [July 1912]. I went at 8.15 to church & took Baker with me. Home soon after 9. Went out again to St Marks where I had to meet Mr Wilson to see the works of restoring the mosaics in St Marks Church. The Westend gallery is all boarded off & the mosaics are being taken down, restored & will be replaced when the roofing which is now 12 cent. out of the perpendicular has been put right. A cast is made of the sections of mosaics with soft paper. This is painted in water colour & a faithful reproduction is thus obtained by which the originals can be repaired & replaced. This work is a slow one & it will be several years before it is finished. The Director Com: accompanied us & explained the whole process. He also took us to the Museum containing some vestments, carpets & tapestries which had been formerly used in the Church services & many of which have been very roughly treated– I had a very interesting tho’ somewhat fatiguing morning. In the afternoon out in gondola– | |
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