[M.160L]                                                              [M.160]
                                                                      No 120 121 back of p 156	Byzantine house on Gran Canale.	160
                                                                      
                                                                      Gothic		along as the Fondaco, Loredan, Farsetti and so on: entirely
Collaterally with this diviision of Marble paving. my object must     Styles. l.		 veneered with marble from top to bottom.
be to state clearly the Great laws of Transition from Byzantine to    		2ndly:  The arcades separate into groups of windows with
Gothic and the causes of the decline of the latter.                   		detached windows on each side & pure doors below.  The wall
Separating all into [gap] Styles.                                     		is now of brick:  the facing of marble surrounds the windows
1st.  Pure Byzantine, worked out in Fondaco de Turchi &c              		and is enclosed by a dentil band.  The circular ornaments
2nd  Transition however with simple Second order windows and          		are however as prominent as before, or more so: the Palazzo
pure pointed or round doors:  (Note under Ca Falier there is an       		Bernardo at St Polo is the most beautiful example of the colour
arcade of shafts of the earliest Apostoli pattern.)                   		effect of a whole facade produced by the coloured circle in
3rd  Transition house of Early Gothic: as Pal  Priuli: Campo St       		the spandrils;  and the Bacon palace of marble facing.
Polo &c.                                                              		3rdly.  The circles enlarge.and become 4foils, and the detached
4.   Formed Gothic.  Ducal Palace                                     		windows receive rich tracery.  This may all be sketched
5.  Debased Gothic, flamboyant &c.                                    		out in a prelimnary chapter.
                                                                      	No 120 is a curious instance of the second form of early construction.
                                                                      		It is a house next to the palace della Regina di Cipro;  ie
                                                                      		opposite the Ca d'oro and a little further down towards
                                                                      		Fondaco de Turchi.  It has above its entresol, a Byzantine
                                                                      		leaf cornice:  another instance of the first story kind of
                                                                      		house - compare the one at Miracoli: then on its main floor
                                                                      		4 at 4 det windows: The four at fig 1 are curious
                                                                      		for their increasing richness to central capital, which is a pure
                                                                      		L. of leaf under spiral. fig 2 and sec beside it, while
                                                                      		the two lateral ones are as fig 3 & section fig 4.  The arches

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