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 Renaissance- Architecture. 101 specimens of Roman Renaissance domestic architecture, and the large unfinished hostile of the former is the first example of a building constructed on the model of the Colosseum, with its tiers of columns and series of arches. The Venetian is the most ornate of the three schools. Each story of the chief buildings of Venice possesses a Fig. 48. — Palazzo Vendramin Calergi, Venice.' separate tier of columns and an entablature. The arched windows are ornamented with columns, and the spandrels are frequently filled with figures. The fronts are many of them of marble. Of the palaces of the early Renaissance, the Palazzo Vendramin Calergi (Fig. 48) and the Palazzo Giovanelli deserve mention.