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197 back of 159 198 160
No 12o, 121 brick at p 156 Byzantine house on Grand
Canale.
Collaterally with this div[i]ision of Marble paving Gothic styles 1. along as the Fondaco, Loredan, Forsetti and so on:
my object must be to state clearly the Great laws of entirely veneered with marble from to to bottom.
Transition from Byzantine to gothic and the causes of the 2ndly. The arcade separate into groups of windows with
decline of the latter. detahced windows on each side and pure doors below. The
Separating all into Styles. wall is now of brick; the facing of marble surrounds the
1st. Pure Byzantine, worked out in Fondaco de turchi &c windows and is enclosed by a dentil band. The circular
2nd Transition however with simple second order windows a ornaments are however as prominent as before, or more so:
and pure pointed or round doors: (Note under la Falice the Palazzo Bernado at St Polo is the most beautiful
there is ab arcade of shafts of the earliest Apostolic example of the colour effect of a whle facade produced
pattern.) by the coloured circle in the spandrils; and the Bacon
3rd Transition house of early Gothic, as pal Priul[,]i Campo palace pf marble facing.
St Polo, etc. 3rdly. The circles enlarge.and become 4 foils, and the
4. Formed Gothic. Ducal Palace detached windows receive rich tracery. This may all be
5. Debased Gothic, flamboyant etc. sketched out in a prelimnary chapter.
No 120 is a curious instance of the second form of early
contraction. It is a house next to the palace della
Regina di Cyro; is opposite the Ca dios and a little
further down towards Fondaco de Turchi. It has above
its entresol, a Byzantine leaf cornice; another instance
of the first story kind of house, compare the one at
Miracoli, then on its main floor 4 at 4 det windows:
The four at fig 1 are curious for their increasing richnes
to cehtral capital, which is a pure L. of leaf under
spiral fig 2 and sec beside it, while the two lateral
ones are as fig 3 section fig 4. The arches
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