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Chap. II.
YENICE.
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648. Central Part ot' tke Faipade of the Doge’s Palace, Venice. From Cicognara.
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two great winclows, one in tlie centre of eacli face. These are not
graceful objects in themselves, ancl liaving nothing in common witli
tlie otlrers, they look too like insertions to procluce an entirely satisfac-
tory effect. The pierced parapet too is poor and flimsy, seen against
the sky. ITad it heen placed as crowning the upper arcade, and hackecl
hy the third story, it would have been as pleasing as it is now poor.
Had the upper story heen set hack, as was prohahly originally cle-
signed, or had it heen placed on the ground and the arcades over it;
hacl, in short, any arrangement, of the parts been adoptecl hut the one
meetings of the council ancl for state occasions than were originally
contemplated, and the upper wall, which was intended to stand on tlie
hack wall of the arcades, was hrought forwarcl even with the front,
overpowering the part below by its ill-proportioned mass. Tliis upper
story too is far from heing heautiful in itself. The winclows in it are far
too few, are hadly spaced, squat, and ungraceful; .and the introduction
of smaller winclows ancl circles mars what pretensions it might have to
simplicity without relieving its plainness. Tts principal ornaments are
YENICE.
797
648. Central Part ot' tke Faipade of the Doge’s Palace, Venice. From Cicognara.
I 10 | 20 | 30 | 40 | 50 feet.
I I I I I I
two great winclows, one in tlie centre of eacli face. These are not
graceful objects in themselves, ancl liaving nothing in common witli
tlie otlrers, they look too like insertions to procluce an entirely satisfac-
tory effect. The pierced parapet too is poor and flimsy, seen against
the sky. ITad it heen placed as crowning the upper arcade, and hackecl
hy the third story, it would have been as pleasing as it is now poor.
Had the upper story heen set hack, as was prohahly originally cle-
signed, or had it heen placed on the ground and the arcades over it;
hacl, in short, any arrangement, of the parts been adoptecl hut the one
meetings of the council ancl for state occasions than were originally
contemplated, and the upper wall, which was intended to stand on tlie
hack wall of the arcades, was hrought forwarcl even with the front,
overpowering the part below by its ill-proportioned mass. Tliis upper
story too is far from heing heautiful in itself. The winclows in it are far
too few, are hadly spaced, squat, and ungraceful; .and the introduction
of smaller winclows ancl circles mars what pretensions it might have to
simplicity without relieving its plainness. Tts principal ornaments are