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Windows of the Third and Fourth orders: the Casa Sagredo. (From the Collection of George Thomson Esq. Huddersfield) [f.p.299,v]
VII. GOTHIC PALACES 299
having been built not later than the middle of the thirteenth century. Another example, less refined in workmanship, but, if possible, still more interesting, owing to the variety of its capitals, remains in the little piazza opening to the Rialto, on the St. Mark’s side of the Grand Canal. The house faces the bridge, and its second story has been built in the thirteenth century, above a still earlier Byzantine cornice remaining, or perhaps introduced from some other ruined edifice, in the walls of the first floor. The windows of the second story are of pure third order; four of them are represented above, with their flanking pilaster, and capitals varying constantly in the form of the flower or leaf introduced between their volutes.
§ 33. Another most important 
example exists in the lower story of the Casa Sagredo, on the Grand Canal, remarkable as having the early upright form (3 b, Plate 14) with a somewhat late moulding.1 Many others occur in the fragmentary ruins in the streets: but the two boldest conditions which I found in Venice are those of the Chapter-house of the Frari, in which the Doge Francesco Dandolo was buried circa 1339;2 and those of the flank of the Ducal Palace itself, absolutely corresponding with those of the Frari, and therefore of inestimable value in determining the date of the palace. Of these, more hereafter.3
§ 34. Contemporarily with these windows of the second and third orders, those of the fourth (4 a, and 4 b, in Plate 35) occur, at first in pairs, and with simple mouldings, precisely similar to those of the second order, but much more rare, as in the example at the side, Fig. 32, from the Salizzada
1 [See the drawing (Plate F) introduced in this edition; for the chequer-work see next volume, ch. i. § 32, and for a further notice of the house, Venetian Index.]
2 [See below, p. 343, and in the next volume, ch. ii. § 58.]
3 [See Plate A in Vol. IX. for details of the Frari window; and for the chronological point, above, pp. liii. and 272.]
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