[M.175L]                                                              [M.175]
                                                                      No 124, 125	Byzantine House near Foscari	175
                                                                      
                                                                      Byzantine Houses:  The oldest which I have found consistent with itself in
                                                                      		Venice, I should consider that behind the Casa Foscari of which
                                                                      		all the traces that remain are outlined  on No 124.
                                                                      		Fig 2 on that paper, is the medallion marked 2 larger and
                                                                      		fig 3 the cornice section A.  All the rest is in its  right
                                                                      		place, and about right proportion: all that is drawn exists,
                                                                      		and nothing more:  the rest being all built up or destroyed.
                                                                      		This is especially to be regretted with regard to the smaller arches
                                                                      		whose construction cannot be made out:  What can be made
                                                                      		 out is however very simple in plan:  the cornice A. and fig
                                                                      		3 runs along the whole range:  fragment of it only appearing
                                                                      		until the flank of the large arch, when luckily the whole
                                                                      		plaster head & simple cylindrical shaft head attached are
                                                                      		preserved, and seen in No 125: while the bases are safe
                                                                      		all along: and show that the main arch has been carried by
                                                                      		pilasters; (Compare round arches of rich house upstairs near Rialto)
                                                                      		- while each lateral arch has had two shafts, thrown into
                                                                      		pairs between then, and terminating again in a pilaster
                                                                      		at the side of the house.  One of the pairs of bases: which
                                                                      		are all of red Verona marble, is given fig 1 p 73 l.
                                                                      		Gothic book.  The shafts are however all gone: but I found
                                                                      		the intervals between ring & ring, i.e. from point a in fig
                                                                      		1 p 73 l to its opposite b: on No 124.  3 " 8 from
                                                                      		c to d 3 " 10 from d2 to e 3 " 10 and e2 f 3. 8
                                                                      		Vid p 177.	

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