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 303
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 brickof the Venetian battlement. This consists of a series ofpiers finished with a steep gabled outline, and… … BRICK BATTLEMENT—VENICE. In a small courtyard, desolate and dreary, reachedafter crossing the Ponte di Paglia and one or two otherbridges on the Eiva dei Schiavoni, is the Palazzo Badoer, afourteenth-century palace, the ogeed arches of the windowsin which are more than usually good; whilst the…
