. Brick and marble in the middle ages: notes of tours in the north of Italy . are throughout this front manymedallions of dark marble, which, let into a field of lightmarble, are most brilliant in their effect. The most remarkable features inthe Ca dOro are, however, thetriple and elaborately carved andchevroned angle-shafts, which I havenowhere else seen,^ and the verysingular parapet. The height ofthis is greater about the centre andat the two ends than elsewhere;but this appears to have been donerather with the intention of carry-ing up to the very top the notice-able division in the buildi
. Brick and marble in the middle ages: notes of tours in the north of Italy . are throughout this front manymedallions of dark marble, which, let into a field of lightmarble, are most brilliant in their effect. The most remarkable features inthe Ca dOro are, however, thetriple and elaborately carved andchevroned angle-shafts, which I havenowhere else seen,^ and the verysingular parapet. The height ofthis is greater about the centre andat the two ends than elsewhere;but this appears to have been donerather with the intention of carry-ing up to the very top the notice-able division in the building itselfthan for any other reason. A verysmall portion only of the parapet isperfect, and this it is rather difficultto get at. The small balls of marble afiixed to the outer edgeof the trefoils are like those in the tracery of the Ducal Palace,and in the centre of the medallions of marble everywherethroughout the city. Their effect is certainly very the side of the Ca dOro there are three ancient housesof considerable interest, and the second from the Ca dOro,. CAlITAL OF WIMKIW-SHAFT—VliNICK. They may Ijc coinparcd witli tin; cliuvroncd and spiiiil columns in theiiivliway, leading from tlic iiuith aiak; into the baptistery of tlie Frari, crcettdbetween lotil and loM, wliieh is proliubly alxmt tlie date of the Ca dOro.
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