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270 framed by structural members without structural meaning, 116 (cut); Ducal Palace, Venice, east side of court, 154, north side, pseudo-Corinthian order of, 155 (cut); Palazzo Contarini, Venice, grouping of the pilasters, 161 (cut); Palazzo Corner-Spinelli, Venice, mediæval features, incomplete circle in the tympanum space, 160; Palazzo Corneri, Venice, 124 (cut); Palazzo Vendramini, Venice, grouping of, in the bays of the façade, 162; Scuola di San Rocco, Venice, with mediæval features and with pseudo-Corinthian colonnettes, 159 (cut); Palazzo Bevilacqua, Verona, 126, 127; Palazzo Branzo, Vicenza, a peculiar form of compound window, sometimes called an invention of Scamozzi, 134.

Wren, Sir Christopher, Parentalia, or Memoir of the Family of the Wrens, 232$8$ ff.; professor of astronomy at Oxford, 233; quotations from a letter written during his visit to Paris, 233; quoted on his Sheldonian theatre, Oxford, 234; ordered to submit designs for the restoration of old St. Paul's cathedral, London, 234; his drawings of plans for the new structure, 235-238 (cuts); building of the present structure, 239-245 (cuts); his scheme to "reconcile the Gothic to a better manner," 238, 243, 245; he learned his art on the scaffold in close contact with the works, 239: his churches other than St. Paul's, exhibit a medley of elements from spurious Gothic to pseudo-classic in irrational combinations, 245, 246; his spires are hybrid compositions of barbaric character, 246.