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                                                                                     FRARI  TOMB OF FOSCARI  FONDACO DE TURCHI
                                                                      		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 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 cup
                                                                      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, 1 is the only instance I have yet seen
                                                                      of the Veronese system of treating the trefoil in Venice.
                                                                      Byzantine arches   There is a grat deal of fresh brickwork on the
                                                                      		Fondaco (de Turchi) filling up the plans from which the
                                                                      marble have been removed:  I believe the entire visible
                                                                      brickwork of the upper arcade is new:  at all events it fit
                                                                      up to the dentil of the arches horizontally, - no vault
                                                                      being turned             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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