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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ng in the centre. The nave is, of course, quitefree from any fixed seats, and this with the great areaof the transepts gives an air of spaciousness to thewhole interior. There are two or three fine ancient monumentsof Doges (one of them of the Doge Foscari), andlast, but not least, two immense monuments facingeach other, near the west end of the nave, to Ca-nova and Titian, preposterous in size, quite unsuit-able to a church, and, so far at least as I could judge,entirely devoid of merit as works of religious art.There is, too, a painting by Giovanni Bellini of theMadonna and Saints, which ought not to be forgotten,and a grand and well-used sacristy, such as neverseems to be seen save in Italy. To the south of thenave are large uninteresting cloisters, and it is only atthe east end that the exterior at all repays the ecclesi-ologist for the pains he must take to get all round it.The view which I give will best illustrate its generalcharacter. The windows are all transomed, the tracery
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17—STA. MARIA GLORIOSA DEI FKAEI, VENICE, Chap. Viri. CHURCH OF THE FRARI. 135 and portions of the arches bemg executed in stone,the rest of the wall being entirely of brick or terra-cotta; the bricks not particularly good, and the terra-cotta borders, cornices, and the like, poor and meagrein their design. The most observable point about thedetail is the great and ugly splay on the exterior ofthe windows, and the fact that all the apsidal termi-nations in the church finish with an angle in thecentre, a pecuharity which I do not remember everto have met with before, and very much to be com-mended on every account. There is a degree of clumsiness about the way inwhich the arches of the windows are set ujDon thejambs which is very characteristic of this kind ofwork; but this, and other points open to criticism,do not prevent the east end of this church from beinga very noble conception, broad and grand, unbrokenwith the lines of buttresses which generally toomuch confuse apsidal termi

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