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A cyclopaedia of works of architecture in Italy, Greece, and the Levant (1895)

Longfellow, William Pitt Preble, 1836-1913 · New York, Scribner's sons · leaf 581

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ably the richest e.xample of thedomestic Gothic of Venice. The fapadeappears to have been designed in accord-ance with the almost invariable conven-tion of the Venetian palaces, a centreand two wings; but in that case onlyone of the wings was built. The wholefront of three stones is about 70 ft.… … Fig, 223. —Venice, Ca dOro. usual Venetian billet-moulding. Thespandrels are decorated with disks of col-ored marble. In the second and third 4JT VE^ICE stories the arcades are of six iiointod undcusiied arclics ])caring tlie jjeculiar \ene-tiau tracery imitated from tlic Ducal Pal-ace, of cusped…

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