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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.VLn.rnilliaiuaH./R^) :4. im^h <\ObDO^l. VK^ICE. p. 223. Chap. VIII.) VKXETIAX ARCHITKCTURE. 228 northern pointed than any other buihling in Venice, andtliat it has perhaps at the same time less breadth and dignitytlian any. Two fine palaces ^ are now turned into hotels, and thatat which I stopped was full of remains of pointed windows;indeed traces of pointed work are singularly plentiful, andI might go on to an interminable length were I to attemptto describe them all. The Arsenal is old, I believe, but hasbeen modernized. It may be visited now for the sake of thegrand and quaint old lions which sit before its entrance. Of the interiors of these houses I cannot say very much.They usually have a great hall in the centre of each floor,into which the various rooms open; and the windows ofthese halls are generally the most important in the eleva-tion. The frames of the windows were of wood, placedbehind the traceries, and the original ceilings were themoulded beams of the floors. I h

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