Note 48 — Chapter V
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41 In the year 1851, by the Duchesse de Berri.
42 Of the Braided House and Casa Businello, described in the Appendix, only the great central arcades remain.
43 Only one wing of the first story is left. See Appendix 11.
44 I am obliged to give these measures approximately, because, this front having been studied by the builder with unusual care, not one of its measures is the same as another; and the symmetries between the correspondent arches are obtained by changes in the depth of their mouldings and variations in their heights, far too complicated for me to enter into here; so that of the two arches stated as 19 ft. 8 in. in span, one is in reality 19 ft. 6½ in., the other 19 ft. 10 in., and of the two stated as 20 ft. 4 in., one is 20 ft. and the other 20 ft. 8 in.
45 By Mr. Penrose.
46 I am sometimes obliged, unfortunately, to read my woodcuts backwards owing to my having forgotten to reverse them on the wood.
47 Vide Plate X. figs. 1 and 4.
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1. Fondaco de’ Turehi, lateral pillars. 2. Terraced House, lateral pillars. 3. Casa Farsetti, central pillars, upper arcade. 4. Casa Loredan, lower arcade. 5. Casa Loredan, lower arcade. 6. Fondaco de’ Turchi, upper arcade. 7. Casa Loredan, upper arcade. 8. St. Mark’s. 9. St. Mark’s. 10. Braided House, upper arcade. 11. Casa Loredan, upper arcade. 12. St. Mark’s. 13. St. Mark’s. 14. Fondaco de’ Turchi, upper arcade. 15. St. Mark’s.
49 Compare “Seven Lamps,” chap. ii. § 22.
50 Two of these are represented in the second number of my folio work upon Venice.
51 The absence of the true grotesque spirit in Byzantine work will be examined in the third chapter of the third volume.
52 Ezekiel, xxvii. 11.
53 Perhaps this type is in no place of Scripture more touchingly used than in Lamentations, i. 12, where the word “afflicted” is rendered in the Vulgate “vindemiavit,” “vintaged.”
54 Appendix 12, “Modern Painting on Glass.”
55 2 Samuel, xiii. 18.