[49] The similar marble facing at Vicenza was executed between 1400 and 1444. See [p. 130].
[50] Published by Mr. Parker, of Oxford, to whose courtesy I owe the use of this illustration.
[51] See[ Appendix at the end of the volume].
[52] I say “usual,” because it is really quite curious to see how repeatedly either the dog-tooth or the nail-head is used in this position. The commonest eaves-cornice consists of a simple chamfered stone—the chamfer covered with dog-tooth—supported on moulded corbels at short interval.
[53] There is another traceried balcony in the canal near the Bridge of Sighs. It is the only other example I know in Venice.
[54] They may be compared with the chevroned and spiral columns in the archway, leading from the north aisle into the baptistery of the Frari, erected between 1361 and 1396, which is probably about the date of the Ca’ d’Oro.
[55] The Europa and Danieli’s.
[56] This arrangement is not by any means unknown in Northern Europe, though certainly uncommon as compared with Italy, where it was almost universal. There is an example of the thirteenth century at Easby Abbey, Yorkshire, and another at Oakham Castle; whilst in France the ancient houses at Cluny all have it; and at Ratisbon, one of the most interesting cities in Germany, a great number of houses of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, of prodigious architectural interest, have it.
[57] It was only so used in the Ducal Palace.
[58] I have heard a polka played by the organist in S. Mark’s!