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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asonably be put down as imitations of Northern work;they are very similar, and a description of the latter willtherefore suffice. It is flanked-by massive buttresses, andhas two large and lofty trefoiled lancets, surmounted by acircular window of great size; the whole is very richlymoulded and executed entirely in brick. The buttressesand roof finish at the top in a rude temporary-lookingmanner, and it is therefore impossible to solve the interest-ing question of their original terminations, which must, Iimagine, have been pinnacles. The ordinary bricks usedhere are about 10 in. x 3 in. in size, and laid with very widejoints of mortar; those used for window-jambs and archesare of much deeper colour and finer clay than the others.There is something quite refreshing in coming suddenlyand unexpectedly upon such a simple and English-lookingelevation, after the multitude of thoroughly Italian fronts ithas been our fate to see lately. On the north side of the nave there seems to have been a
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60.—WEST END, S. FRANCESCO, PAVIA. Iage Cfcl. Chap. X.) SANTA MA!tlA DEL CARMINE. 281 fine row of pointed windows, but tliey have been all de-stroyed to make way for Eenaissance improvements. Thereare very large buttresses dividing the bays in this aisle—afeature which is unusual in Italy, and which, in addition tothe design of the choir and transepts, would seem to showthat this church was not entirely the work of an Italian.In the plan, too, it is remarkable that, though the generalarrangement is quite that of the large Italian churches,such as the Frari at Yenice and Sta. Anastasia at Yerona, inone particular it is unlike them. The groining bays of theaisles are square, and not oblong; and as two of the aislearches make one bay of the nave, the groining compartmentsin both are as nearly as possible square. This is anarrangement which occurs often in German Romanesque,but is not seen so often in Italy. There is a fine campanile between the south transept andthe choir; it has fou

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