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The reference is to the former church of San Gregorio and its attached cloister next to the Salute at Dorsoduro 172, Nadali & Vianello (1999) Tav. 51.
There are references to architectural features of San Gregorio in Stones of Venice:
- the main door - Works, 11.267 and 6d of Plate XIV facing Works, 10.290;
- the door opening to the water 11 and 15 of Plate VII facing Works, 11.270;
- archivolt of facade - 12 of Plate IX facing Works, 11.290;
- the Venetian Index provides a summary of Ruskin’s views at Works, 11.388 and Works, 11.389, with comment on the apse of the church, the abbey cloisters (which he dates to 1350 by analogy with the Ducal Palace), and the door to the cloisters with the windows on each side of it, the ‘grandest examples in Venice of late windows of the fourth order’.
There are references in the small notebooks:
Door Book pp.23L and 23 - church door, distinguished from Abbazia door (compare Notebook M pp.62-64);
Palace Book p.49L - roses of the door.
There are references in the large notebooks:
Notebook M pp.62-64 - apparently the door to the cloister and the windows on each side of it. The passage reads as if Ruskin did not recognise when he wrote this passage the relationship between this door and San Gregorio, and only later added the page heading ‘St Gregorio. Abbazia’ as opposed to ‘San Gregorio (Church)’ at Notebook M p.64.
Notebook M p.64, bottom of the page, to Notebook M p.66 - the apse of the church and the tracery of its windows;
Notebook M pp.108-9 - the door on the west front of the church, and the entry is derived from the note at Door Book p.23;
Notebook M p.109 - apparently a distinction between the ‘water door’ and the ‘square door’;
Notebook M2 p.7 - an attempt to fit the capitals of abbey cloister and door into a developmental sequence;
Notebook M2 p.10 - Cicogna on dates of rebuilding and later restoration;
Notebook M2 p.89 - comparison of the door of the ‘Abbazia’ with the Ducal palace;
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For further images of the West Front, in addition to those in Door Book pp.23L and 23 and Palace Book p.49L, see here. For an image of the side of the Abbey to the Grand Canal, with its water door see here.
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