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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to Chap. IX.) THE DUOMO. 245 to be owing to the large amount of white in the panels.Near the west end of the north aisle is a singular circularerection, which is said by the cicerone to be the receptaclefor the holy oil, but which without this information I shouldhave taken for the baptistery. It is a perfectly plain circularmass of stonework about fifteen feet across, with a doorwayon the west side, a moulded base and cornice, and above thelatter a series of detached shafts carrying a second cornice ofmarble. A square projection on the north side abuts againstthe aisle wall, and seems to have been the special receptaclefor the vessel which held the oil. At present it seems tobe as little used and understood by the people of Aqivileja asit would probably be if it were in some country beyond theEoman pale; a remark by the way on old church arrange-ments which one finds oneself making almost everywhere,when one contrasts the intentions of the old builders withthe uses to which more mode

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