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Fondaco de Turchi (S. Croce 1730, Nadali & Vianello (1999) Tav. 16).
Notebook M p.49 ‘It would be difficult to find anything in slender proportion, more exquisite than the three terminal arches of the lower arcade of the Fondaco de Turchi. Their general arrangement is on No 31: fig 1: The cornice a c runs unbroken along the whole line of building: its section is at fig 2 c is a dentil deeper than usual: because equal in projection to the true cornice a b it notches therefore as marked by dotted line do not reach quite to its base; The space between b and the dentil c is occupied by a facing of alabaster slabs in vertical parallelograms, as shown: The brickwork of the arches has been so much defaced that it is impossible to say which of it is ancient: some large bricks seem to have composed a very finished facing after the marble has been broken off: but it appears that a common brick arch has carried the main weight, and this is fixed on the soffit with carved - on the stilt with plain slabs of alabaster. whose projecting edges were simply touched alternately with the chisel; thus in the most natural and easy way, forming the Venetian dentil: The second, or outermost line of dentils has been instered to about its own depth; or it would seem so by the fissure which in a few places marks its former place. The circles are traced in the same manner’
Notebook M p.73 ‘No 31 fig 5, associated with plinth [diagram] and C. No 42 fig 3’ Fig 5 is now missing as only the top of the original Sheet No. 31 still exists.
Notebook M p.49; Notebook M p.50; Notebook M p.57; Notebook M p.73; Notebook M p.74; Notebook M p.102; Notebook M p.106; Notebook M p.159; Notebook M pp.160L and 160; Notebook M p.179; Notebook M p.180; Notebook M p.194. Also Notebook M2 p.5; Notebook M2 p.6L; Notebook M2 p.36.
Works, 11.378; Works, 9.384; Works, 10.144; Works, 10.148; Works, 10.277 and frontispiece.
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