Brick and marble in the middle ages: notes of tours in the north of Italy (1874)
Street, George Edmund, 1824-1881 · London : J. Murray · leaf 280
d 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… … 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,…
