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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Juliet— Dwarfs—Wells. We reached Verona in the evening, and were up early onthe next morning, anxious to get a general idea of the city.But I was no sooner out of my hed than I saw from mywindow, over the roofs of the opposite buildings, thecampanile of the Palazzo dei Signori, a lofty, simple, andalmost unbroken piece of brickwork, rising, I suppose, atleast three hundred feet into the air, and pierced withinnumerable scaffold-holes, in and out of which, as I looked,flew countless beautiful doves, whose choice of a home in thewalls of this tall Veronese tower will make me think kindlyof putlog-holes for the future. Certainly, if the Italian andEnglish principles of tower-building are to be compared withone another, the Italian need give no fairer examj)le of itspower than this simple and grand erection. It rises, as we found afterwards, out of a large pile ofbuildings, and for a short distance above their roofs is builtin alternate courses of brick and a verv warm-coloured stone,
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; Chap. VI.) VERONA. 85 and then entirely with brick, pierced with only one or twosmall openings, and terminating with a simple belfry-stage;the belfry windows, with their arches formed without mould-ings, and with the sharp edges only of brick and stone1 used alternately, are divided into three lights by shafts of, shining marble ; the shafts, boing coupled one behind theother, give strength with great lightness, and are very strikingin their eflect. These windows have, too, remarkably largebalconies, but without balustrading of any kind. The upj)erI and octangular stage of the campanile is comparatively1 modern, but rather improves the whole effect than otherwise.I could hardly tear myself away from this noble work; but much more w^as to be seen, so I dallied not long before I^ set forth on a journey of discovery, giving myself up gladlyi to sketching and ecclesiology. The hotels in Verona are both of them near Sta. Anas- ! tasia, and at the eastern end of the long and at first narr

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