. Brick and marble in the middle ages: notes of tours in the north of Italy . ve l)efore had to refer to—to some extent the 214 VENICE. [Chap. VIII. effect of a panel with a window pierced in it, veneeredon the front. The Foscari Palace is the only one of thesethree that has any string-courses. The arrangement of thewindows—large in the centre and smaller at the sides—is sonearly regular and of a sort of two-and-two kind of uni-formity, that one scarcely notices that nevertheless, wheninternal arrangements make it necessary, a departure fromthis strict rule is allowed. The back entrance to the
. Brick and marble in the middle ages: notes of tours in the north of Italy . ve l)efore had to refer to—to some extent the 214 VENICE. [Chap. VIII. effect of a panel with a window pierced in it, veneeredon the front. The Foscari Palace is the only one of thesethree that has any string-courses. The arrangement of thewindows—large in the centre and smaller at the sides—is sonearly regular and of a sort of two-and-two kind of uni-formity, that one scarcely notices that nevertheless, wheninternal arrangements make it necessary, a departure fromthis strict rule is allowed. The back entrance to the Foscari Palace is on the sidecanal. It is of some interest as retaining, in a very perfectstate, an example of a very picturesque treatment in brick •of the Venetian battlement. This consists of a series of fpiers finished with a steep gabled outline, and pierced with jtrefoiled openings. A good example of this sort of battle- ment remained near the Fondaco de Turchi, and deserves «illustration. It is quite a Venetian invention, and errs onthe side of liRICK BATTLEMENT—VENICE. In a small courtyard, desolate and dreary, reachedafter crossing the Ponte di Paglia and one or two otherbridges on the Eiva dei Schiavoui, is the Palazzo Badoer, afourteenth-century palace, the ogeed arches of the windowsin which are more than usually good; whilst the beautyof the central window, inclosed within a square line of Chap. Yin.] GOTHIC PALACES. 215 luouldiiig, withiu which the \Yall is iiicrusted with iuial)lerelieved by medallions, is very great. The structure ofthis, as of most Venetian palaces, is brick which hasbeen frescoed ; but it is now in a very lamentable state ofdecay. The balconies of the lower windows are clearlymodern, but there is a trace of the original balustradebetween the shafts of the windows in the second stage; andin front of the side-lights to the upper window is a grilleof iron-work taking the place of a balcony, and composedof a combination of
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