A history of architecture in Italy from the time of Constantine to the dawn of the renaissance (1901)
Cummings, Charles Amos, 1833-1905 · Boston, New York, Houghton Mifflin and company · leaf 276
^, and variousrectangular fragments, evidently from older buildings, are set asdecorations in the facade. (Fig. 416.) The well-known facade of the palace known as the Ca d Oro, —perhaps the richest, though by no means the most beautiful of theVenetian palaces, — is divided into two unequal parts… … Fiff. 415. Venice. Palace at S. Luca. others pointed. Above this is the usual pergolo, of six pointed andcusped arches, with a range of quatrefoils above them as in theupper arcade of theDucal Palace, butwith the superfluousaddition of anotherrange of half quatre-foils, which throwsthe tracery…
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