A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive . Foil : Arch with Five Foils, called Cinque-foil Arch, Salisbury Cathedr.\l. they characterize especially the Middle Pointed])eriod in France, England, and Germany.(Called also Feathering ; see Tracery.) — A. d. F. H. FOLFI, MARIOTTO DI ZANOBI ; archi-tect and engineer ; l.)21 ; d. IGUO. Folfi made the nrndel for, and built, after 1549, the palace of Giovanni Uguecioni, in Florence (unfinished). There is a sketch of this famous design iu the Uflizi, by Giorgio 53 FONDAMENTA , the younger. The buil
A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive . Foil : Arch with Five Foils, called Cinque-foil Arch, Salisbury Cathedr.\l. they characterize especially the Middle Pointed])eriod in France, England, and Germany.(Called also Feathering ; see Tracery.) — A. d. F. H. FOLFI, MARIOTTO DI ZANOBI ; archi-tect and engineer ; l.)21 ; d. IGUO. Folfi made the nrndel for, and built, after 1549, the palace of Giovanni Uguecioni, in Florence (unfinished). There is a sketch of this famous design iu the Uflizi, by Giorgio 53 FONDAMENTA , the younger. The buililing is still inthe of the Uguecioni family. OeyniuUer-Stegmann, Dif Arch, dcr Jien. inTosi;i)i(: Mii/.zanti del Uadia, liaecolta delle Miy-liiiri Fdlilrirlii. FOLIATE (adj.). A. I\Iade, jirovideil, oradorned with foils, as in mediicval a foil is adorned with subordinate foilsthe tracery is said to be double foliate ; if these. Foliated ^l, Canterbury ^thbdral,c. 1177. are again adorned with minuter foils, it is triplefoliate. Tracery with cusps may be foliate evenwhen the cusps are joined, not by true circulararcs, but by other curved outlines. B. Made or adorned with leafage or leaf-like forms, as a foliate capital, a foliate corbel. FOLIATE (v.). ^1. To form into leaves orleailike shapes. B. To adorn with foliation. FOLIATION. The state of being foliate ;foliate ilei-iinition. FONDACO. In Italian, a factory in A. FONDACO DEI TEDESCHL In Venice ;a very large building of about 1510, designedeither by Fra Giocondo (see Giocondo), or byan unknown artist called merely Girolamo Te-deseo (Jerome the German). Its laige surfacesof plain wall were once covered with noble paint-ings by Giorgione, Titian, and others of tliegreat school of Venetian painters. FONDACO DEI TURCHI, In Venice ;a bcautifid Byzantine building which, in 1850and thereafter, was , but still of ex-treme interest. It has
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