. The builders of Florence . wers, when, in 1250, the dado was cut down. The out-building of the sporti in the following age took the crown from allbuildings to which it was applied, as the new front necessarily roseinto that of the battlements so as to hide their picturesque pro-jection. Something must be done above to recover what was thuslost, and, as it were, crown the house anew. Hence, then, thecharacteristic Florentine roof of the fifteenth and following overhangs the sporti as these the basement line of the house 102 THE BUILDERS OF FLORENCE front, and so leaves but a ribb
. The builders of Florence . wers, when, in 1250, the dado was cut down. The out-building of the sporti in the following age took the crown from allbuildings to which it was applied, as the new front necessarily roseinto that of the battlements so as to hide their picturesque pro-jection. Something must be done above to recover what was thuslost, and, as it were, crown the house anew. Hence, then, thecharacteristic Florentine roof of the fifteenth and following overhangs the sporti as these the basement line of the house 102 THE BUILDERS OF FLORENCE front, and so leaves but a ribbon of blue sky visible from thenarrow and shady street. Structurally, such roofs are nothing- butthe beam-work of the old galleries set at a new, a falling angle—see those over the shops of the Ponte Vecchio—and, if the readerthink this fanciful, let him study the matter out in the Bigallo, theSalviati Palace roof, or that which protects the fresco on the frontof the Apostoli Church, where he will find brackets and cross. Detevil of wooden bi&ckefinb over ./hop/ on ^onfe Vecchio 9^ohce ffie droop in the heacl/.jhewin&how inclined eewef-biackeljr were derived /fom hSe yh©.i6ht pul-lo& . brackets with profiles that recall the earlier corbels ; or let him goto the Gaddi frescoes in Sta. Croce to learn from the architecturepainted there how soon and firmly this classic form had takenpossession of the Florentine mind. Restrained or supplantedbelow, the wooden bracketing rose to its triumph under the shadowof the wide eaves it supported and adorned. Nay, more is to besaid, for just here Florentine palace architecture developed a newand charming feature under its eaves. The bracket, as we sawin the beginning, is but the equivalent form of the capital, and
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