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                                                                      		          FONDACO DE TURETI  LOWER ARCADE
                                                                      School 1. A		       Example 1st.  F[D]ondaco de’ Turchi
                                                                      		It would be difficult to find anything in slender propor-
                                                                      tion, more exquisite than the three terminal arches of
                                                                      the lower arcade of the Fondaco de Turchi.  Their
                                                                      general arrangements is on No 31  fig 1  The cornice a c
                                                                      runs unbroken along the whole line of building:  its
                                                                      section is at fig 2 c is a dentil deeper than usual:
                                                                      because equal in projection to the true cornice a b it
                                                                      notches therefore as marked by dotted line do not reach
                                                                      quite to its base;  the space between b and the dentil c
                                                                      is occupied by a facing of alabaster slabs in vertical
                                                                      parallelograms, as shown:  The brickwork of the arches
                                                                       has been so much defaced that it is impossible to say
                                                                      which of it is ancient, some large bricks seem to have
                                                                      composed a very finished facing after the marble has been
                                                                      broken off:  but it appears that a co[n]mmon brick arch has
                                                                       carrief the main weight, and this is fi[a]xed on the
                                                                      soffit with carved - on the sti.t with plain slabs of ala-
                                                                      baster, whose projecting edges were simply touched alter-
                                                                      nately with the chisel;  thus in the most natural and
                                                                      		measy way, forming the Venetian dentil:  the second, or
                                                                      outwrmost line of dentils has been instered to about
                                                                      its own depth;  or it would seem so by the fissure which
                                                                      in a few places marks its former place.  The circles are
                                                                      traced in the same manner;  and then the whole

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