[M.159L]                                                              [M.159]	Frari. Tomb of Foscari. Fondaco de Turchi	159
                                                                      
                                                                      		below, while the two virtues behind the tomb - both in actions
                                                                      		which droop the innermost hands:  and both in the shade, and
                                                                      		one without the left, the other without the righthand.  And
                                                                      		thus - though crowded with paraphernalia - attended by six
                                                                      		a group of large figures of virtues - and charged to excess with leaf
                                                                      		work  there is not a spark of true feeling in the whole.
                                                                      		The working of the Doges cap in this effigy is the most
                                                                      		careless I have ever seen in middle age work.  The
                                                                      		trefoliation of its bracket arches given at p 157 l is
                                                                      		the only instance I have yet seen of the Veronese system of
                                                                      		treating the trefoil in Venice.
                                                                      Byzantine arches	There is a great deal of fresh brickwork on the Fondaco
                                                                      Fondace de Turchi (de Turchi filling up the places from which the marbles
                                                                      		have been removed:  I believe the entire visible brickwork
                                                                      		of the upper arcade is new:  at all events it fits up to the dentil of the arches
                                                                      		horizontally - no vault being turned [diagram] so: and on the
                                                                      		lower arches in many places it is the same, but the facing
                                                                      		bricks being of several different sizes:  but in four or five of
                                                                      		the arches this fresh facing is gone, and the real old
                                                                      		brick vault is discernible, just as wide as the breadth between
                                                                      		the dentils, and being the real support of the arch:  The whole
                                                                      		front has been veneered with marble exactly like St Marks.
                                                                      		Note then, the three steps of the House front. First, arcades all

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