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[M.80L] [M.80]
No 60. House in Corte del Remer 80
No 60 Fig 1. Relations of height, width of plinth
and general proportion between doors and windows of old
house near Rialto.
Fig 2. Masonry of one of the windows. A a b c d are
the points of the upper dentil, those of the facing are plain
enough; and of the lower dentil, whose curves are exquisitely
finished. It is strange that the upper point c. leaves just
one dentil above it off the rt line; probably easier to
curve it from the straight piece than to reverse the curve
below. Fig 3. Section a b fig 1.
Fig 4. sect of capital, but vid No 61: and p 122
This house - one of the most neglected - is also one of the loveliest
in Venice. The sun, in winter, touches only the
angle of the court into the depth of which it is withdrawn:
and when the light is warm on the fondaco de Tedeschi
the dews of the night still hang upon the eagle
wings of its capitals; and the heavy moisture makes its
broken stair slippery and cold; and brings out into
continual green the neglected wild herbage of its crannies; There
is deeper green than theirs in the Verd antique, which
surrounds its peaked windows as if with a moat of
the Venetian sea - precious, and veined with pure white, - the golden
white brown of its their dentils - and the rich dark movement of the arch binds
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[Version 0.05: May 2008]