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
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and roof shut up and desolate, apparently half-used and never fiUed with a throng of worshippers,reminded me too strongly of the sad and similar fateof our own dear English cathedrals not to awaken asigh as I looked at it. To some men it is a comfortto find that their neighbours are no better than them-selves in these matters, but I confess that to mymind a noble church disused is a subject only formournful recollection, just as a noble church muchused and filled with crowds of worshippers is, so far,an object for our emulation and admiration. Beside San Zenone I think the only very grandchurch as yet unmentioned is that of S. FermoMaggiore—a vast Romanesque basilica without aisles,but with small transepts, and a chancel and northand south chancel-aisles opening into the nave by ^ A view of the interior of San Zenone is given by Gaily Knight, luitit fails to convey the grand effect of colour which is one of its great beau-ties. He also gives drawings of the magnificent west doorway.
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D u ^>; r I SL. 14.—S. FEEMO MAGGIOB.E VERONA. Chap. VI. S. FEKMO MAGGIOEE. 103 three arches, which exactly correspond with its vastwidth; an ngly arrangement, which we shall meet withao^ain in the church of the Eremitani at Padua. Thechurch seems to have been entirely altered in thefourteenth century, and except the crypt little now re-mains to mark its original character. Inside, the mostremarkable feature is the roof, of a curious, heavy,depressed-looking design, whose construction is almostentirely concealed by boarding on the under side.This boarding is arranged in a succession of smallcurves or cusps, and gives one the idea of a roof witha succession of concealed hammer-beams. Besides this(which by the way is richly painted), the pulpit is themost noticeable thing. It projects from the wall onthe south side about half way down the nave, and hasa delicate spiral canopy, the whole in marble and verybeautiful. I was distressed at not being able to get asketch of it, but the ch

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