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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heexterior there is a rather good treatment of the polygonalapse, with steep gables and pinnacles over the windows oneach side. This is somewhat like the apse of San Fermo,at Verona. The campanile on the south-east of the naveis a very lofty late Grothic erection, finished with an incom-plete Eenaissance belfry-stage. The old portion is dividedinto a succession of stages of equal height, and is mainlystriking on account of its good colour—being all of redbrick—and simple outline. The west front is, as is usualhere, a great gable divided into three parts by pilasters andhalf columns; the doorway is of the thirteenth century, andits columns rest on lions backs. The detail of the windowsat the ends of the aisles is extremely good, and seemed to meto be of the same date. The windows are of two-lights,with shafts for menials, and a Ijroad transome of plate tracery;the tympanum of the arch at the top is similarly filled : here,though the jambs are of l)rick, the whole of the rest of the
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5 5. ;v5.o;Tlf)^E;^T. BOLO<^)M?t ». 296. Chap. XI.) SAN FRANCESCO. 297 design is executed in stone, and tlie likeness to some of thelater Venetian clnircli windows in the Madonna dell()rto andSS. Griovanni e Paolo is too great not to be observed. Thecornices here are very good. I noticed not only bricks ofunusual shapes, very well arranged for effect, but also disksof earthenware, set with the convex side in view, and of bril-liant glazed colour, generally blue or green. Their effectis extremely good. The church of Sta. Maria Maggiore is less altered inter-nally than the rest. It is of great length, groined through-out, and in general effect and proportions seemed to me tohave a somewhat less Italian air than the other churches.The apse has an aisle and chapels round it of which the brickdetail externally is effective. Here there are large tiles cutto a trefoil shape placed flat against the wall-face as anornament. They are good-looking, but have not stood well. In front of this c

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