Identifier: brickmarbleinmid01stre (find matches)
Title: Brick and marble in the Middle Ages: notes of a tour in the north of Italy
Year: 1855 (1850s)
Authors: Street, George Edmund, 1824-1881
Subjects: Architecture, Medieval Architecture Architecture, Gothic
Publisher: London, J. Murray
Contributing Library: Wellesley College Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries

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the lavatory. The whole of this cloisteris in a very sad state of filth, neglected and unused,and will, I fear, ere long become ruinous. From the cloister you enter by a side door into thenorth aisle of the choir; much better, however, wouldit have been to have entered from the west, for it isthere, when looking down the great length of thechurch, with its singular perspective of timber roofingand the gloriously clear and shining marble shaftswhich support its clerestory walls, that one feelsmost deeply the great and religious effect of thechurch. To an eye used to northern Gothic there issomething very new in such a building. Its shape,its materials, its arrangement, are all so unlike whatan Enghsh eye is used to, that I paused for an instantin doubt as to whether I might really admire or not;but it was only for an instant, and I soon felt howvery glorious the work was, not only in its generaleffect, but as much, or even more, in the treatmentof the details of sculpture and the like.
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Chap. VI. S. ZENONE. 99 The general plan is very simple—n great paral-lelogram, divided into a nave of vast width withnorthern and southern aisles; the aisles terminatedwith square east ends, the choir with an apse offive bays, which is, however, of very much laterdate than the rest of the church. The chief singu-larity in the design is the division of the piers of themain arcades into primary and secondary—the firstbeing large heavy piers supporting great arches span-ning the nave and aisles, which are finished in a linewith the top of the walls; and the latter delicatecircular marble columns of very classical character^with finely carved capitals, and looking almost tooslight to support the vast height of clerestory wallwhich towers up above the arcade which they support.The roof is curious; the framing all concealed, withthe exception of the collar-beams, which connect thepoints of the trefoil which forms the internal line ofroofing. This trefoil outline is all boarded, divided

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