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POLO, SQUARE OF ST. (Campo San Polo) [IX. 321]. A large and important square, rendered interesting chiefly by three palaces on the side of it opposite the church, of central Gothic (1360), and fine of their time, though small. One of their capitals has been given in Plate 2 of this volume, fig. 12. They are remarkable as being decorated with sculptures of the Gothic time, in imitation of the Byzantine ones; the period being marked by the dog-tooth, and cable being used instead of the dentil round the circles.

POLO, PALAZZO, at San G. Grisostomo (the House of Marco Polo), X. 166. Its interior court is full of interest, showing fragments of the old building in every direction, cornices, windows, and doors, of almost every period, mingled among modern rebuilding and restoration of all degrees of dignity.

PORTA DELLA CARTA, X. 353.

PRIULI, PALAZZO [X. 310, XI. 29]. A most important and beautiful early Gothic palace, at San Severo; the main entrance is from the Fondamento San Severo, but the principal façade is on the other side, towards the canal. The entrance has been grievously defaced, having had winged lions filling the spandrils of its pointed arch, of which only feeble traces are now left; the facade has very early fourth-order windows in the lower story, and, above, the beautiful range of fifth-order windows drawn in Plate 18, Vol. X., where the heads of the fourth-order range are also seen (note their inequality, the larger one at the flank). This palace has two most interesting traceried angle windows also, which, however, I believe are later than those on the facade; and, finally, a rich and bold interior staircase.

PROCURATIE NUOVE, see “LIBRERIA.” VECCHIE: A graceful series of buildings, of late fifteenth century design, forming the northern side of St. Mark’s Place, but of no particular interest.

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QUERINI, PALAZZO, now the Beccherie, X. 298, XI. 273.

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RAFFAELLE, CHIESA DELL’ ANGELO. Said to contain a Bonifazio:¹ otherwise of no importance.

[RAMO DIRIMPETTO MOCENIGO, door-head in, XI. Examples, 12.]

REDENTORE, CHURCH OF THE, X. 443. It contains three interesting John Bellinis,² and also, in the sacristy, a most beautiful Paul Veronese.

REMER, CORTE DEL, house in, IX. 305, X. 292, XI. 279.

¹ [Seven panels round the organ loft; the story of Tobit and the Angel.]

² [Compare Vol. X. p. 443. The beautiful “Virgin and Child with two Angels” is now attributed by some to Alvise Vivarini.]

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