. Brick and marble in the middle ages: notes of tours in the north of Italy . rcase in front of thishouse are entirely executed in brick, and are probably laterin date than the house itself, though it is noticeable thatthey are of a very early and pure type, and that here, asgenerally throughout the North of Italy, the pointed archwas first used in construction, and then, some time after itsfirst introduction, and very generally in some modified form,for ornamentation also. And now, having so far cleared the way, let me ask myreaders to go with me to the Ducal Palace, and there under-take a so
. Brick and marble in the middle ages: notes of tours in the north of Italy . rcase in front of thishouse are entirely executed in brick, and are probably laterin date than the house itself, though it is noticeable thatthey are of a very early and pure type, and that here, asgenerally throughout the North of Italy, the pointed archwas first used in construction, and then, some time after itsfirst introduction, and very generally in some modified form,for ornamentation also. And now, having so far cleared the way, let me ask myreaders to go with me to the Ducal Palace, and there under-take a somewhat careful examination of its very famous design. I shall not enter into a general description of the entirebuilding, because, as this has undergone prodigious altera-tions since its first erection, it is unnecessary to do muchmore than refer to the two fronts, which still retain, nearlywithout alteration, their mediaeval design, and to thoseportions only of the interior and courtyard which have notbeen altered. The whole building forms three sides of a hollow square :. 27.—CORTE DEL REUER, VENICE. Pdje 196. Chap. VIII.] THE DUCAL PALACE. 197 one side rises out of the deep recesses of the Kio del Palazzo,spanned near its outlet by the famous Bridge of Sighs, andis entirely of Eenaissanee work; the next side, rising fromthe Piiva dei Schiavoni, faces the Giudecca, and is of thepurest Venetian Grothic; and the third, facing the Piazzettadi San Marco—the small square which connects S. Markswith the water—is also Gothic, and of the same type. Theback or north side of the palace abuts upon S. Marks. I cannot pretend to decide at all absolutely wpon thevexed question of the dates of the mediaeval portions,because, as the reader will find in an interesting discussionon the subject in the second volume of Mr. Buskins Stones of Venice, it is a source of hot disputes. But thefollowing ap2)ear to me to be the main points. The Ducal Palace was burnt in 1105, restored in 1116,and
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