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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utthey were in part altered in the fourteenth century, whensome coats-of-arms and figures were added. Those at theextreme angles are of David and Goliath, and on each sideof the centre sitting figures of Justice and Force. Next to the Ca Loredan is the Ca Farsetti (now theMunicipio), which is, I think, slightly the older building ofthe two. Here there are three arches resting on shafts inthe centre, and an equal number resting on piers on eachside, and a continuous arcade of fifteen arches on the upperstage resting on coupled shafts. The Palazzo Businetto on the Grand Canal opposite theCa Grimani, has remains of Byzantine work in its two lowerstages. Here the caps are Byzantine in character, thearchivolts flat inlays, with a billet mould on each side, anda carved string-course of running foliage inclosed betweentwo lines of notched or billet mould. This short notice of some of the more important lioman- Tliis liouyu i.s in tlic Scsticrc di Caiinarec;i(), Iiirrocliia Sun Camiiiiio. a M
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26 BYZ;fi)^TIJ^E WELL . VE;=tICE . p. 193 Chap. VIIL) BYZANTINE PALACES. 193 esque aud Byzantine remains enables me to make a fewgeneral deductions: (1.) These buildings were always oftwo stages in height. (2.) They had the entrance in thecentre, and had generally a distinction between the centreand the wings. (3.) The capitals were generally Byzantinein character, but often copied from Corinthian. (4.) Theywere of brick, but generally veneered with thin slabs ofmarble. (5.) They were enriched with circular, square, andarched medallions inclosing carving of foliage and animals,and frequently of coupled birds or animals regarding eachother,—a device always indicative of an early date and anEastern origin; and (6.) The string-courses were generallycarved either with continuous running foliage, or with leavesarranged in threes; the centre turning ove-r, the side leavesextended flatwise, and uj)ward. This last string-course isexactly coj)ied from Sta. Fosca, Torcello, and is carved allr

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