Identifier: brickmarbleinmid00stre (find matches)
Title: Brick and marble in the middle ages: notes of tours in the north of Italy
Year: 1874 (1870s)
Authors: Street, George Edmund, 1824-1881
Subjects: Architecture, Medieval Architecture -- Italy Architecture, Gothic
Publisher: London : J. Murray
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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he buildings as they come;but rather as we think of them, and to some extent in theorder of their merit, let us note down a few of the glories ofthe domestic work of Venice. And first let us stop in thisnarrow canal, for we have by our side one of the mostexquisite little pieces of detail in the whole city. It isan archway, simple and delicate in its proportions, lovely asit is simple, and appropriately j)laced hard by the bridgecalled del Paradiso. I trust that my sketch is clearenough to shew how pure and good the work is. The mainpoints to be noted are the characteristic flatness of thedetails, and the line of dentil-moulding, which defines allthe leading architectural features, originally invented forborders of incrustations at S. Marks, and here, as every-where in Venice, used for decoration afterwards. Theincrusted circles of marble on each side of the figure givegreat life to the spandrel beneath the arch, and the windowsseen behind shew us a late example of tlie not unfrequent
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IONTE DKL PAUiiDISO. Vt.NlCE. CiiAi. Vill.) OOTHKJ PALACK8. 211 use of the semicircular and ogee arches together in the samewindow. Another precious fragment—the Palazzo San Giorgio,I helieve—is reached from the land side by passing underan arch somewhat similar to that on the Ponte del Paradiso.This arch is turned between the upper stories of two housesat the end of a caJIe properly yclept dell arco detto bon,and is finished with a steep gable. Beyond it is seen afragment of wall veneered with marble, with the upper partof an early two-light window, and two circular medallions;and above this a piece of w-all veneered in diamonds of redand white marble—so far as I know, a unique example ofsuch a treatment. The window-head is of that earliest formof ogee, a circle just turned up to a point in the cenire,which has so manifestly an Eastern origin, and which mustnot be confounded in date wdth our English ogee arches. In another, and rather desolate, canal in the outskirts ofthe city

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