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 215
a building certainlyin some respects of almost unequalled beauty, but atthe same time of unequal merit; its first and secondstages quite perfect in their bold nervous character,and in the almost everlasting-looking succession of thesame beautiful features in shaft, and arch, and tracery,forming… … 19.—^ARCHWAY, FONTE DEL PARADISO, VENICE. Chap. VIII. AECHWAY. 153 conjunction with, the treatment of the upper stagethat this facade is so eminently beautiful, and I amconfident that without it the remainder of the palacewould find at least as many admirers as it does now,whilst by itself the…
