The stones of Venice . ces so small that there is not roomfor the full profile of the tracery bar all round them, those interstices areentirely closed, the tracery bars being supposed to have met each in Venice, if an interstice becomes anywhere inconveniently small,the tracery bar is sacrificed; cut away, or in some way altered in profile,in order to afford more room for the light, especially in the early traceries,so that one side of a tracery bar is often quite different from the instance, in the bars 1. and 2., Plate XL, from the Frari and St. Johnand Paul, the uppermos
The stones of Venice . ces so small that there is not roomfor the full profile of the tracery bar all round them, those interstices areentirely closed, the tracery bars being supposed to have met each in Venice, if an interstice becomes anywhere inconveniently small,the tracery bar is sacrificed; cut away, or in some way altered in profile,in order to afford more room for the light, especially in the early traceries,so that one side of a tracery bar is often quite different from the instance, in the bars 1. and 2., Plate XL, from the Frari and St. Johnand Paul, the uppermost side is towards a great opening, and there wasroom for the bevel or slope to the cusp ; but in the other side the openingwas too small, and the bar falls vertically to the cusp. In 5. the upper-most side is to the narrow aperture, and the lower to the small one ; andin fig. 9., from the Casa Cicogna, the uppermost side is to the aperturesof the tracery, the lowermost to the arches beneath, the great roll following XI. Tracery Ba rs vi. traceries. 10. FINAL APPENDIX. 245 the design of the tracery; while 13. and 14. are left without the rollat the base of their cavettos on the uppermost sides, which are turned tonarrow apertures. The earliness of the Casa Cicogna tracery is seen in amoment by its being moulded on the face only. It is in fact nothingmore than a series of quatrefoiled apertures in the solid wall of thehouse, with mouldings on their faces, and magnificent arches of purepointed fifth order sustaining them below. The following are the references to the figures in the plate : 1. Frari. 2. Apse, St. John and Paul. 3. Frari. 4. Ducal Palace, inner court, upper window. 5. Madonna dell Orto. 6. St. John and Paul. 7. Casa Bernardo. 8. Casa Contarini Fasan. 9. Casa , 11. Frari. 12. Murano Palace (see note, p. 240.). 13. Misericordia. Plate XI. 14. Palace of the younger Foscari.* Vol. III. 15. CasadOro; great single windows. 16. Hotel Danieli. 17. Ducal Palace. 18
Size: 1239px × 2017px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade1850, booksubjectarchitecture, bookyea
