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No 124, 125 BYZANTINE HOUSE NEAR FOSCARI
Byzantine Houses: The oldest which I have found consisttne with itself
in Venice, I should consider that behind the Casa Foscari
of which all the traces that remain are outlined on No
124. Fig 2 on that paper, is the medallion marked 2 larger
and fig 3 the cornice section A. All the rest is in its
right place, and about right proportion, all that is drawn
exists, and nothing more; the rest being all built up
on destroyed This is especially to be regretted with
regard to the smaller arches whose construction cannot be
made out; What can be made out is however very simple in
plan; the cornice A. and fig 3 runs along the whole
range; fragment of it only appearing until the flank of
the large aisle, when lcukily the whole plaster head
and simple cylindrical shaft head attached and preserved
and seen in No 125, while the bases are safe all along, and
show that the main arch has been carried by pilasters;
(Compare round arches of rich house upstairs near Rialto)
while each lateral arch has had two shafts, thrown into
pairs between then, and terminating again in a pilaster
at the side of the house. One of the pairs of bases,
which are all of red Verona marble, is given fig 1 p 73 1
Gothic book. The shafts are however all gone; but I
found the intervals between ring and ring, u.e. from
point ta in fig 1 p 73 1 to its opposite C; on No 124.
3 " 8 from c to d 3 " 10 from d2 to e 3 " 10 and e2f 3. 8
vide p 177.
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