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FRARI TOMB OF FOSCARI FONDACO DE TURCHI
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 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 cup
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, 1 is the only instance I have yet seen
of the Veronese system of treating the trefoil in Venice.
Byzantine arches There is a grat deal of fresh brickwork on the
Fondaco (de Turchi) filling up the plans from which the
marble have been removed: I believe the entire visible
brickwork of the upper arcade is new: at all events it fit
up to the dentil of the arches horizontally, - no vault
being turned 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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