Identifier: brickmarbleinmid00stre (find matches)
Title: Brick and marble in the middle ages: notes of tours in the north of Italy
Year: 1874 (1870s)
Authors: Street, George Edmund, 1824-1881
Subjects: Architecture, Medieval Architecture -- Italy Architecture, Gothic
Publisher: London : J. Murray
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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32. PALRS^IO $E<^f^EDO. VEj^ICE, p. 221. CiiAi. VIII.) GOTHIC PALACES. 221 the Palazzo Segredo, was a very good example indeed; it hasunhappily, I believe, all been restored and painted, so thatnow few would believe that it could ever have been (as itwas) one of the very best works in Venice of its age. Itquite deserves illustration, on account of the extreme vigourand beauty of its great window, which has more of theflavour of the arcade in the Doges Palace, than anythingelse in Venice. These three houses are all more than usuallyirregular in the arrangement of their windows. Lower down the Grand Canal, and nearly opposite thePost-office, is the Palazzo Pisani-Moretta—a very latebuilding, in which all the balconies are Eenaissance, withordinary balustrading; but this occurs so often in connectionwith the latest examples of Gothic work, that I am disposedto believe that they were possibly, after all, contemporaryin their erection. This palace, too, is remarkable for itsdouble ent

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