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[M.49L] [M.49] Fondaco de Turchi. Lower Arcade. 49
School 1. A. [diagram] Example 1st. Fondaco de’ Turchi
It would be difficult to find anything in slender proportion,
more exquisite than the three terminal arches of the lower
arcade of the Fondaco de Turchi. Their general arrangement
is on No 31: fig 1: The cornice a c runs unbroken
along the whole line of building: its section is at fig 2 c is
a dentil deeper than usual: because equal in projection to the
true cornice a b it notches therefore as marked by dotted line
do not reach quite to its base; The space between b and
the dentil c is occupied by a facing of alabaster slabs in
vertical parallelograms, as shown: The brickwork of the
arches has been so much defaced that it is impossible to
say which of it is ancient: some large bricks seem to have
composed a very finished facing after the marble has been
broken off: but it appears that a common brick arch has
carried the main weight, and this is fixed on the soffit
with carved - on the stilt with plain slabs of alabaster.
whose projecting edges were simply touched alternately with
the chisel; thus in the most natural and easy way, forming
the Venetian dentil: The second, or outermost line of dentils
has been instered to about its own depth; or it would seem
so by the fissure which in a few places marks its former place.
The circles are traced in the same manner; and then the whole
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[Version 0.05: May 2008]