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The flat Venetian brick — small, dense, fired to a range of buff and rose and rust — is the city's oldest structural material, predating the Istrian stone that was added later as a facing for prestige. Here it appears in its working form: laid in deep courses on a large civic wall, the mortar raked back to cast shadow between each course, the whole surface weathered to a complex texture of salt and age. Two blind arches are incised into the wall — a structural device that reduces the mass of a thick wall while maintaining its integrity — one fully articulated with its own miniature arch at the base, the other cropped by the frame. To the left, a tall glazed window with a brick voussoir arch reflects the Venetian sky in deep blue. Three arches, two open and one blind, one sky and one shadow: the whole vocabulary of Venetian masonry in a single frame.
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