Italy from Dante to Tasso (1300-1600) : its political history as viewed from the standpoints of the chief cities, with descriptions of important episodes and personalities and of the art and literature of the three centuries . DBVEIfOPMENT OF THE VENETIAN POINTED ARCH doubtless been long ago discovered in the case of various verypicturesque Saracen-like arches of similar form in St. Marks)was constructively useless, the broken arc having no bearing-power. It was therefore decided to keep the poor old roundarch underneath in order to do all the hard work while thefantastic ogee took its pleasur
Italy from Dante to Tasso (1300-1600) : its political history as viewed from the standpoints of the chief cities, with descriptions of important episodes and personalities and of the art and literature of the three centuries . DBVEIfOPMENT OF THE VENETIAN POINTED ARCH doubtless been long ago discovered in the case of various verypicturesque Saracen-like arches of similar form in St. Marks)was constructively useless, the broken arc having no bearing-power. It was therefore decided to keep the poor old roundarch underneath in order to do all the hard work while thefantastic ogee took its pleasure above in the form of a recurveddecorative moulding. This device (see illustration) is foundin the old mansion of Marino Faliero [Casa Falier) and else-where. But fashion proved too strong, and the point at the top ofthe round arch again appeared, bearing-power being securedfor the broken arc to some extent by using a solid head-stone(fig. 2 in the illustration) with a recurved pointed incision cutinto its lower concave. Then as this recurved arch was stillconstructively weak the recurve was abandoned for the archshown in fig. 3. But this decidedly picturesque form, withspatula-shaped head, was weakened by the break i
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