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In his discussions of Ducal Palace windows Ruskin recognises are three groups of windows on the Rio di Palazzo side of the Ducal Palace, what he calls the lateral windows.
At Works, 11.32 Ruskin begins a discussion of the windows of the ‘Byzantine Renaissance’ on that facade. They are the windows further from the Bacino di San Marco than the others he identifies. There do not appear to be any references in the notebooks to this group of windows.
At Works, 11.248 Ruskin sees as belonging to the fourteenth century and of high quality both the 3rd Order windows of the upper story and the Ducal Palace windows with traceries of the lower story of the part of the Rio di Palazzo facade which is nearer the sea. Apart from the next two windows with traceries facing the sea, the other windows of the Ducal Palace facing the Bacino San Marco and the Piazzetta San Marco represented ‘four periods of restoration each baser than the preceding’. The process of decline is outlined at Notebook M pp.100-103, with a plan at Notebook M p.100L.
The index to M at Notebook M p.221L refers to the lateral windows of the upper storey of the Rio facade of the Ducal Palace as ‘Windows, lateral 3rd Order’, and cites Notebook M p.83; Notebook M p.84; Notebook M p.85; Notebook M p.95 (though the treatment of the windows includes both Notebook M p.94 and Notebook M p.96); Notebook M p.105, Notebook M p.106. There is a description with diagrams in Sheet No. 84. The 3rd order Ducal Palace lateral windows of the Rio di Palazzo façade, which are grouped at Notebook M p.104 with the windows of the old sides of the interior court as a ‘great independent period’.
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First two of the windows with traceries below.
For images of the ‘Byzantine Renaissance’ windows of the rio façade see here, here and here.
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