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217 back of 176 16 177
Beight from a (No 124) the top of the base, to the top BYZANTINE HOUSE near FOSCARI
of cornice q 7 " 7. while the distance b c across the joined bases; is 11 in
Now the inner rolls above g are broken away directly The other measures are opposite and will be intelligible
and filled up with brickwork, How they were once filled the after the analysis of the archiv[t]olt.
state of the opposite arch seen in no 125, may suggest, but At p 74 Gothic book, upside down, fig 1 is the section
not established I could only get the measures of spave h3 h4 (Taking this section from h3 h4 it is h3-h4
from within the outer roll i.e. q r in No 124 of No 124, from k2 to k2 it is k3, k2 of No 124.
which - 4 " 4 The tracery of the white marble is in flat deep fillets
Height C h 7 " 5 not rounded, the animal cutting all excessively rude.
Width of architrave h2h 0 " 7 In the centre of the arch at the top is the hand fig 1
Then these arches there are also the highest in stilt, I h p 76 in which the sun is marked by a ball with a cross
have met with, stilted the height of their own shafts. incision only; while I n the cross at Murano it is two
Now by rights (I have drawn the wrong) hz the top of consecutive circles; The ornamental corres[p]pondi[e]ng on
architrave of great arch, should be on a level with h2; the opposite side mark this arch as all of a pieve, and
the depth of the architrave h3 h4 is 1 " 6½ from centre to bring its date to that of these curious heads. All is of
centre of the red rolls, p - q is 11 in. I could not course wondered in from the stone.
get the span of arch on abacus, but from r to s is 9 " 9 The upper part of the section - common also the the
and h4 - C2 is 6 " 3½ stilted arches, is given in deta8l with section in red
Fig 2 p 73 1 m n is accurately drawn, but n. no
is perhaps truer in proportion; both may be tested by
the section from m to edge of page, p 74 which is the real
size exactly while s t with edge of page, gives the size
of one of the dentils.
(The lines are wrong, which in fig 2 p 63 1 cross the recess
es of section) Note the early form of dentil sloped in
from surface As usual in buildings of this date, this
outer moulding is curiously tapered to the fall on abacus.
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[Version 0.05: May 2008]