Pacific tomb

The tomb of Beato Pacifico in the South transept of the Frari is mentioned by Ruskin at Notebook M p.127 and described at Notebook M p.133 and Notebook M p.134; at Notebook M2 p.16 it is made of ‘creta cotta’; at Notebook M2 p.123 Ruskin comments on its luxuriant crocketing. See Works, 11.370, where it is described as ‘a curious example of Renaissance Gothic with wild crockets (all in terra cotta)’.

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