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dont look like it and only a few of the paintings watercolors, most - though they are too thin and not 'big' enough. The color of it is tea-rose - that is it goes from a creamy white, touched with grey into the softest salmon and pale yellow - with the relief of bits of dark or clear green and intense - no tender, black. This morning the sky was a luminous grey, in the afternoon we saw it in sunshine and I like the white light almost the best, because then you have color - no light - and shade.

We haven't done anything but walk about- and go to the Cathedral. The Ducal Palace is'nt the brickdust-color you generally see it painted but the palest [[strikethrough]] crea [[/strikethrough]] ivory, and I might say flesh color, with enough black discoloration to make it beyond anything refined and elegant.

As for St Marco, it seems to almost (black discoloration dont always do this, does it) bend under its weight of richness. It seems to have been made by a people, who loved delicate harmonies of color, and understood them as well as any really oriental people, but would at the same time have exuberant form beside. Hence St Maucks. When I got inside of it, I understood the Brooks church in Boston - that is meant to be like it. Your first impression is a deep inexhaustible golden richness and you find it to be far richer than you thought. You see what apparently is a fine old oak open work carved railing, of superb arabesque design, and you find it is not oak but a lovely waxy deep yellow marble. It is all marble - where it is not gold mosaic, and fresco - no the fresco's are mosaic too up in their misty heights. But marble sounds like coldness and this is warm, and deep and