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. The stones of Venice; introductory chapters and local indices (printed separately) for the use of travellers while staying in Venice and Verona . Plate XII.—Capitals of Fondaca de Turchi. VENETIAN INDEX. 309 plate, representing three of its capitals, has been severaltimes referred to. FoNDACo de Tedeschi. a huge and ugly building near theEialto, rendered, however, peculiarly interesting by rem-nants of the frescoes by Giorgione with which it was once . covered. See Vol. II. 83, and in. 26. Formosa, Chuech of Santa Maria, III. 114, 123. FoscA, Church of St. Notable for its exceedingly picture
. The stones of Venice; introductory chapters and local indices (printed separately) for the use of travellers while staying in Venice and Verona . Plate XII.—Capitals of Fondaca de Turchi. VENETIAN INDEX. 309 plate, representing three of its capitals, has been severaltimes referred to. FoNDACo de Tedeschi. a huge and ugly building near theEialto, rendered, however, peculiarly interesting by rem-nants of the frescoes by Giorgione with which it was once . covered. See Vol. II. 83, and in. 26. Formosa, Chuech of Santa Maria, III. 114, 123. FoscA, Church of St. Notable for its exceedingly picturesquecampanile, of late Gothic, but uninjured by restorations, andpeculiarly Venetian in being crowned by the cupola insteadof the pyramid, which would have been employed, at thesame period in any other Italian city. FoscARi, Pak\zzo, on the Grand Canal. The noblest examplein Venice of the fifteenth century Gothic, founded on theDucal Palace, but lately restored and spoiled, all but thestone-work of the main windows. The restoration wasnecessary, however: for, when I was in Venice in 1845, thispalace was a foul ruin ; its great hall a mass
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