. A history of architecture in Italy from the time of Constantine to the dawn of the renaissance. are panel on its face with a quatrefoil enclosing a head inrelief. The roof of the building was originally, if we may believeMessrs. Verdier and Cattois, above these battlements, the openingsbetween which served as windows to light an additional story.^ In the Palazzo Grotanelli, there are but two stories, the first veryhigh with an arcade of nine narrow pointed arches oversegmental openings, alternate doors and windows, the arch-heads solid but pierced by a circular opening. The wall of thisstory
. A history of architecture in Italy from the time of Constantine to the dawn of the renaissance. are panel on its face with a quatrefoil enclosing a head inrelief. The roof of the building was originally, if we may believeMessrs. Verdier and Cattois, above these battlements, the openingsbetween which served as windows to light an additional story.^ In the Palazzo Grotanelli, there are but two stories, the first veryhigh with an arcade of nine narrow pointed arches oversegmental openings, alternate doors and windows, the arch-heads solid but pierced by a circular opening. The wall of thisstory is of stone, wdth a great space of wall over the arcade. The windows of the upperstory, which is ofbrick, are of twolights not cusped,with a pierced cir-cle in the head ofthe bearing - cornice has avery fine decoratedarched corbel-tablewith shields in reliefunder the theare strongbattlements,like the are decorated simplybut effectively withbricks set in and out.(Fig. 410.) In the PalazzoPalazzo Salembini, Salembini. ^j^g ^f ^he most imposing build-ings in Siena, we find. cornicesquarewhich, cornice. ? I Fig-. 41U. Siena. Palazzo Verdier et Cattois, Architecture Civile et Domestique du Moyen Age, vol. i., p. 50. CIVIL ARCHITECTURE 255
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