. Brick and marble in the middle ages: notes of tours in the north of Italy . ands the whole view of its noble andever-busy way to where the arch of the Eialto and anotherbend in the canal close in the view. We will go a fewstrokes only towards the Eialto, and then turn round tolook at the palaces we have just passed. They certainlyform a most magnificent group, and are in every wayworthy of their conspicuous position. The palace at thejunction of the two waters is that of the Foscari; theothers belonged, I believe, to two of the Giustiniani family;and but a few yards up the canal, which runs
. Brick and marble in the middle ages: notes of tours in the north of Italy . ands the whole view of its noble andever-busy way to where the arch of the Eialto and anotherbend in the canal close in the view. We will go a fewstrokes only towards the Eialto, and then turn round tolook at the palaces we have just passed. They certainlyform a most magnificent group, and are in every wayworthy of their conspicuous position. The palace at thejunction of the two waters is that of the Foscari; theothers belonged, I believe, to two of the Giustiniani family;and but a few yards up the canal, which runs by the side ofthe former, is one of the smaller remnants of Byzantinework already referred to. This grouj) is so well known asscarcely to need any description—sufiice it to say, there-fore, that throughout these palaces the windows are shafted,and the glass is fixed in wooden frames behind the stone-work. This is beyond all doubt what we ought to do; it isthe only sensible and rational mode of adapting the systemof traceried and shafted windows for domestic purposes, and. 30 lOOORWftY. POJNITE S. TOJ^H . YEJMIC E 212. OiAP. Vni.] GOTHIC PALACES. 213 lias liere, as elsewhere, the prestige of ancient authority torecommend it to the consideration of those amongst us whowill do nothing without it. I have enlarged on this pointelsewhere, and will, therefore, say no more upon it now,save that in Venice such a thing as an English nionialordinarily is, was never known. Windows were invariahlyshafted from the earliest period to the latest, and so farinvariably of the highest order, inasmuch as they admittedof the definite expression of the point at which the monialterminated and the arch commenced, and inasmuch, too,as the coloured surface of the detached marble shaft mustever be far more lovely than the lines of tracery mouldingscarried down even to the sill. The angle-shafts of the Palazzo Foscari have caps andbases in each stage of the building; those of the otherpalaces continue u
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