Identifier: brickmarbleinmid00stre (find matches)
Title: Brick and marble in the middle ages: notes of tours in the north of Italy
Year: 1874 (1870s)
Authors: Street, George Edmund, 1824-1881
Subjects: Architecture, Medieval Architecture -- Italy Architecture, Gothic
Publisher: London : J. Murray
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ters,which finish at the top in an arcaded cornice of brick; ineach of the two western bays is a lancet window, and thecentre bay has in addition a doorway, and a corbelled outmonument above it; in the eastern bay the window looksjust like one of those curious English low side windows, asto the use of which we have had so many ingenious theories;the east end has no trace of any window, and is finished witha flat-pitched roof, and a brick corbel-table running up thepediment. There is no stone used except in the window-heads and arches. There are many other churches in Verona on both sidesof the river, and into several of them we went, but withoutfinding any of equal merit to those which I have alreadynoticed. Santa Eufemia has a fair west front, of late pointed,and we found one or two good cloisters just like those men-tioned at Brescia. Other churches have fronts built, andinteriors remodelled, by Sanmichele and his successors, in astyle which by no means approved itself to me; others
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1.2.Wina^ws ai Vet^na. S. Cornice ^. Ambr«-gt,MUa.tt. Chap. VI.) DOMESTIC WINDOWS. 1-23 there were which I did not succeed in reacliing,^ and there isone dedicated in honour of S. Thomas of Canterbury, whichis not, however, otherwise of any interest; it has a verykite Gothic west front, of poor character. It is impossible to walk about Yerona without meetingat every turn with windows whose design is similar tothose so often seen in Venice, but the execution and arrange-ment are generally so inferior here to what they arethere, that I shall defer sayingmuch about them until I amdescri))ing the palaces and an-cient buildings of Venice. Theyare almost always finished withogeed trefoils at the top, and arearranged singly, or in couples ormore together, and one above theother, the same in each story ofthe hout^e; their mouldings arethin and reedy, and the carvingof ti eir finials, when they haveany, is very poor. Examples ofthese windows will be seen bymost travellers in the rooms

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