fifths

See Plate XVIII facing Works, 10.310 for an illustration of fifth order windows, and the comment at Works, 10.310. At Works, 10.300 they are the ‘nearest approximation to a perfect Gothic form which occurs characteristically at Venice’.

For a general account of the orders of window and door arches see Door Book.Front pastedown; House Book 1.Front pastedown; and compare Works, 10.290ff and the Plate XIV facing Works, 10.290.

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