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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le feature, however, about these transepts is the pro-digiously heavy open arcade which runs up the gablesunder the eaves-cornice—so heavy and so rude-looking,that, taken by itself, it would probably be put downas of much earlier date than it really is. The fagadefinishes with three heavy pinnacles arcaded all round,and finished with conical caps. To the north transept very nearly the same descrip-tion would apply, save that the doorway is much morenoble and entirely of marble.^ The tracery of therose windows is all finished in brick, and the detailgenerally is even better and more dehcate in its cha-racter than that of the south transept. In both thebricks are all of a pale red colour, and no dark bricksare anywhere used. The exterior of the choir is hardly visible, but a23pearsto be of Lombard Romanesque character, with an opengallery carried round the apse just under the eaves. Tlie two transepts are so very similar that it seemed unnecessary toengrave my sketches of both. y,^ 1^
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37.—NORTH TBAKSEPT, CATHEDRAL, CREMOITA. Chap. TX. PALACE OF JURIST CONSULTS. 197 The baptistery, which, as has been said, stands south-west of the Duonio, is entered b)^ a doorway with a

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