windows in Doge’s palace opposite prisons

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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Of the windows above, the 3rd Order windows on the upper storey of the lateral façade are those which are seen as representing a great independent period. Those below are two of the Ducal Palace windows with traceries.

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