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[M.159L] [M.159] Frari. Tomb of Foscari. Fondaco de Turchi 159
below, while the two virtues behind the tomb - both in actions
which droop the innermost hands: and both in the shade, and
one without the left, the other without the righthand. And
thus - though crowded with paraphernalia - attended by six
a group of large figures of virtues - and charged to excess with leaf
work there is not a spark of true feeling in the whole.
The working of the Doges cap in this effigy is the most
careless I have ever seen in middle age work. The
trefoliation of its bracket arches given at p 157 l is
the only instance I have yet seen of the Veronese system of
treating the trefoil in Venice.
Byzantine arches There is a great deal of fresh brickwork on the Fondaco
Fondace de Turchi (de Turchi filling up the places from which the marbles
have been removed: I believe the entire visible brickwork
of the upper arcade is new: at all events it fits up to the dentil of the arches
horizontally - no vault being turned [diagram] so: and on the
lower arches in many places it is the same, but the facing
bricks being of several different sizes: but in four or five of
the arches this fresh facing is gone, and the real old
brick vault is discernible, just as wide as the breadth between
the dentils, and being the real support of the arch: The whole
front has been veneered with marble exactly like St Marks.
Note then, the three steps of the House front. First, arcades all
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