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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wers were intended to be built, and the staircasesto them are carried up in the western and southern aislewalls in a very unusual and picturesque fashion. Theycommence in the third bay east of the towers, and arecarried up in a continuous rise, opening to the church witha series of arches stepping up to suit the level of thestaircases. The western bay to which these stairs lead iscroined at a lower level, as well as at the nave level, so asto form a very lofty gallery open to the church. The clerestory consists of very small windows, and thereis no triforium ; the main portion of the columns goes up to Anno Domini Mccxu. ultima die Fcbruaiii prcsideute venenibile Triden-tino Episcopo Frederico de Vanga, ct disponente hujus Eccksic oimsinceisit etconstruxit magister Adam dc Arognio Cumane Dioc. et circuitum ipse, suifilii, inde sui Aplatiei cum appendiciis intrinscce tt extrinsece istius ecclcsiemagistorio falniciiruiit. Cuju.s ot sue prolis hie sidstus scpulcium in;mtt.Orate i)ro eis.
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10. X>\JOJA.. TI\E)^T. 81. Chap. \.) THE CATHEDlfAL. 81 and carries the <j;roiiiing, and tlion^li the main arches are allsemi-circular, there is nevertheless an evident attempt—andit is successful—to give an impression of height to the in-terior. The continuous arcades under the eaves are carriedalso across the front of the transepts, and give a great effect ofrichness to the external architecture. Of the two towers only-one is complete, and this was huilt in the sixteenth century.The northern porch is the only place in which the pointedarch appears, and it seemed to me to be of the fourteenthcentury, though the doorway is of Lombard character, withvery quaint but poor carving in its tympanum, of Our Lordwith the four Evangelists, The whole church is built of stone,I and has a Classical want of life and vigour which one noticesL only too often in the best Lombard work. Were it not for the1 building attached to its north-east angle, I suspect the generali impression w

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