This is the Pesaro house at San Marco 3958 Nadali & Vianello (1999) Tav. 41. Compare House Book 1.Back free endpaper recto. The family later moved to the renaissance Palazzo Pesaro on the Grand Canal. Ruskin notes the latter only as an indication of location at Notebook M p.102 but the ‘masks’ are described at House Book 2 p.6. He refers to it at Works, 11.150 and Works, 11.398, but his primary concern in these Notebooks is with the growth of Gothic, and the distinction between good Gothic and bad Gothic, rather than the architecture of renaissance ‘classicalism’.
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