. A history of architecture in Italy from the time of Constantine to the dawn of the renaissance. Fig. 412. Siena. Palazzo Tolomei. CIVIL ARCHITECTURE 257 leafed capitals, joined by small arches of the same character withthe larger arches of the faQade, and the angle-posts often surmountedby quaint little beasts. One of the most simple and elegant of these palaces is the Palazzodegii Ambasciatori. It has three stories, of which the second — thepiano nobile — has a pergolo of four cusped and pointed arches witha range of quatrefoils in the spandrils, the whole enclosed in a squareformed by the

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. A history of architecture in Italy from the time of Constantine to the dawn of the renaissance. Fig. 412. Siena. Palazzo Tolomei. CIVIL ARCHITECTURE 257 leafed capitals, joined by small arches of the same character withthe larger arches of the faQade, and the angle-posts often surmountedby quaint little beasts. One of the most simple and elegant of these palaces is the Palazzodegii Ambasciatori. It has three stories, of which the second — thepiano nobile — has a pergolo of four cusped and pointed arches witha range of quatrefoils in the spandrils, the whole enclosed in a squareformed by the thin Venetian dentil or billet moulding. The arcadeis repeated in the third story, but without the quatrefoils. Twonarrow single windows on either side the central arcade are similarlytreated. (Fig. 413.). Fig. 413. Venice. Palazzo degli Ambasciatori. 258 ARCHITECTURE IN IlALY

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