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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 311

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the Ducal Palace,and in the centre of the medallions of marble everywherethroughout the city. Their effect is certainly very piquant. By the side of the Ca dOro there are three ancient housesof considerable interest, and the second from the Ca dOro, 1 They may be compared with the chevroned and… … The most remarkable features inthe Ca dOro are, however, thetriple and elaborately carved andchevroned angle-shafts, which I havenowhere else seen,1 and the verysingular parapet. The height ofthis is greater about the centre andat the two ends than elsewhere;but this appears to have been donerather…

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