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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Cloister — Broletto, Brescia. The arches throughout are both round and pointed,and very much mixed together; but this mixture pro- S. Gereon, at Cologne, is a magnificent example of a church upon thesame kind of plan; a grand choir projected from a decagonal nave, theeffect of which is most noble. No doubt such a nave does more thanmerely suggest the possibility of adapting the dome to pointed buildings.
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6.—BROLETTO, BRESCIA. Chap. V. THE BROLETTO. 67 bably does not betoken any diversity of date, as itwould in England. A large quadrangle is formed by tbe buildings, whichhas a cloister on two sides, and traces of another clois-ter on a third side now built up. The cloister stillremaining on the east side is ancient and on a largescale : it opens to the quadrangle with simple pointedarches resting upon heavy piers, and a row of piersrunning down the centre divides it into two portions,so that it will be seen that its size is very considerable.The groining has transverse and diagonal ribs, theformer being very remarkable, and, as not unfre-quently seen in good Italian work, slightly ogeed ; not,that is to say, regular ogee arches, but ordinary archeswith the slightest suggestion only of an ogee curve inthe centre. Of the external portion of the buildingthe west front is the most perfect, and must alwayshave been the most striking; it consists of a build-ing containing in the upper stor

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