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interstice becomes anywhere inconveniently small, the tracery bar is sacrificed, cut away, or in some way altered in profile, in order to afford more room for the light, especially in the early traceries, so that one side of a tracery bar is often quite different from the other. For instance, in the bars 1 and 2, Plate 11, from the Frari and St. John and Paul, the uppermost side is towards a great opening, and there was room for the bevel or slope to the cusp; but in the other side the opening was too small, and the bar falls vertically to the cusp. In 5 the uppermost side is to the narrow aperture, and the lower to the small one; and in fig. 9, from the Casa Cicogna, the uppermost side is to the apertures of the tracery, the lowermost to the arches beneath, the great roll following the design of the tracery; while 13 and 14 are left without the roll at the base of their cavettos on the uppermost sides, which are turned to narrow apertures. The earliness of the Casa Cicogna tracery is seen in a moment by its being moulded on the face only. It is in fact nothing more than a series of quatrefoiled apertures in the solid wall of the house, with mouldings on their faces, and magnificent arches of pure pointed fifth order sustaining them below.

The following are the references to the figures in the plate:

1. Frari.

2. Apse, St. John and Paul.

3. Frari.

4. Ducal Palace, inner court, upper window.

5. Madonna dell’ Orto.

6. St. John and Paul.

7. Casa Bernardo.

8. Casa Contarini Fasan.

9. Casa Cicogna.

10, 11. Frari.

12. Murano Palace (see note, p. 281).

PLATE 11,13. Misericordia.

Vol. III.14. Palace of the younger Foscari.^*

15. Casa d’ Oro; great single windows.

16. Hotel Danieli.

17. Ducal Palace.

18. Casa Erizzo, on Grand Canal.

19. Main story, Casa Cavalli.

20. Younger Foscari.

21. Ducal Palace, traceried windows.

22. Porta della Carta.

23. Casa d’ Oro.

24. Casa d’ Oro, upper story.

25. Casa Facanon.

26. Casa Cavalli, near Post-Office.

It will be seen at a glance that, except in the very early fillet traceries of the Frari and St. John and Paul, Venetian work consists of roll traceries of one general pattern. It will be seen also, that 10 and 11 from the Frari,

* The palace next the Casa Foscari, on the Grand Canal, sometimes said to have belonged to the son of the Doge.

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