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392 APPENDIX, 11.
(3.) The Braided House.
Leaving the steps of the Casa Grimani, and turning the gondola away from the Rialto, we will pass the Casa Businello, and
the three houses which succeed it on the right. The fourth is
another restored palace, white and conspicuous, but retaining of
its ancient structure only the five windows in its second story,
and an ornamental moulding above them which appears to be
ancient, though it is inaccessible without scaffolding, and I cannot therefore answer for it. But the five central windows are
very valuable; and as their capitals differ from most that we
find (except in St. Mark's), in their plaited or braided border
and basket-worked sides, I shall call this house, in future, the
Braided House.*
(4.) The Madonnetta House.
On the other side of this palace is the Traghetto called,
"Delia Madonnetta;" and beyond this Traghetto, still facing
the Grand Canal, a small palace, of which the front shows mere
vestiges of arcades, the old shafts only being visible, with obscure circular seams in the modern plaster which covers the
arches. The side of it is a curious agglomeration of pointed
and round windows in every possible position, and of nearly
every date from the twelfth to the eighteenth century. It is
the smallest of the buildings we have to examine, but by no
means the least interesting : I shall call it, from the name of its
Traghetto, the Madonnetta House.
(5.) The Rio Foscari House.
We must now descend the Grand Canal as far as the Palazzo
Foscari, and enter the narrower canal, called the Rio di Ca'
Foscari, at the side of that palace. Almost immediately after
passing the great gateway of the Foscari courtyard, we shall see
on our left, in the ruinous and time-stricken walls which totter
over the water, the white curve of a circular arch covered with
* Casa Tiepolo (?) in Lazari's Guide.
| Title | The stones of Venice - 2 |
| Creator | Ruskin, John |
| Publisher | J. Wiley |
| Place of Publication | New York |
| Date | 1889 |
| Language | eng |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Title | 00000440 |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Transcript | 392 APPENDIX, 11. (3.) The Braided House. Leaving the steps of the Casa Grimani, and turning the gondola away from the Rialto, we will pass the Casa Businello, and the three houses which succeed it on the right. The fourth is another restored palace, white and conspicuous, but retaining of its ancient structure only the five windows in its second story, and an ornamental moulding above them which appears to be ancient, though it is inaccessible without scaffolding, and I cannot therefore answer for it. But the five central windows are very valuable; and as their capitals differ from most that we find (except in St. Mark's), in their plaited or braided border and basket-worked sides, I shall call this house, in future, the Braided House.* (4.) The Madonnetta House. On the other side of this palace is the Traghetto called, "Delia Madonnetta;" and beyond this Traghetto, still facing the Grand Canal, a small palace, of which the front shows mere vestiges of arcades, the old shafts only being visible, with obscure circular seams in the modern plaster which covers the arches. The side of it is a curious agglomeration of pointed and round windows in every possible position, and of nearly every date from the twelfth to the eighteenth century. It is the smallest of the buildings we have to examine, but by no means the least interesting : I shall call it, from the name of its Traghetto, the Madonnetta House. (5.) The Rio Foscari House. We must now descend the Grand Canal as far as the Palazzo Foscari, and enter the narrower canal, called the Rio di Ca' Foscari, at the side of that palace. Almost immediately after passing the great gateway of the Foscari courtyard, we shall see on our left, in the ruinous and time-stricken walls which totter over the water, the white curve of a circular arch covered with * Casa Tiepolo (?) in Lazari's Guide. |
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