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 305
llowed. 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… … 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…
