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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Chap. VIII. THE CA DORO. 161 here I may notice the finials with which the ogeearches of Venetian windows are so often finished.They appeared to me to be invariably tasteless andpoor in execution, and very mean in their outhne. Idid not see one finial in Venice which was satisfying,even when found in conjunction with otherwise finework, and I used to wish heartily, when T reachedsome palace not before seen, that I might find itsarches finished without them. There was some reasonfor the wish, too, in the fact that I believe it is inthe later work that these tasteless ornaments are com-monest. I saw them first at Verona, and lamentedover them there, but at Venice I was positivelyannoyed by the persevering and endless thrusting oftheir poverty and badness upon my wearied eyes. And now let us go again into the Grrand Canal, andwe shall not have gone very far up the broad waterabove the Rialto before we shall find, on our righthand, one of the most striking groups of mediaevalpalaces and ho

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