Brick and marble in the Middle Ages: notes of a tour in the north of Italy (1855)
Street, George Edmund, 1824-1881 · London, J. Murray · leaf 204
to thelarge pure Byzantine palaces in which this arrange-ment is preserved,—in a delicate manner, it is true,—there still remains one remarkable example of theperiod of transition from Byzantine to Pointed, in ahouse which forms one side of the Corte del Eemer(which opens to the Grand Canal just… … 18.—CORTE DEL EEMER, VENICE. Page Hi. Chap. VIIl. THE DUCAL PALACE. 145 feature is the entrance doorway, whose finely orna-mented arch of markedly horseshoe outline is veryconspicuous. On either side of this, and connectedwith, it in one group, are two windows divided byshafts and with arches of…
