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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aised lantern, groined,and lighted by very small windows high up. The anglesunder it have extremely well-designed pendentives withcarvings of the Evangelistic emblems in the centre. Brickis used for the main portion of the work, counter-changedin many parts with stone, and the proportions and detailsof the interior are so good that I found myself in the rarestate of mind (in an Italian church) of admiring withoutgrumbling! The dimensions are good without being im-posing, the total length being a little over two hundredfeet, and the width across the transepts about a hundredand twenty feet. The exterior has a great bald west front with threeround arched doorways, and a false gable between two smallbut lofty flanking towers. The walls are arcaded under theeaves, and over the crossing rises an octagonal lantern, whichis gathered in after a rather ungainly manner above thelowest stage. This steeple is finished with a low circularbrick spire adorned in the most curious fashion witlji small
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\li m*raJKj * J^-^* u €1. Sft)NIT Af^Or^Eft. VBf^CELLI p. 332. CuAP. XII.) SANT ANDREA. oo3 circular brick pinnacles—one over each side of the tower—which look extremely like a collection of chimneys. Detached from the church, and standing at an angle toit, is a simple campanile of later date (1399), and of fourstages in height. The combination of this eccentricallyplaced tower with the rest of the church is very remarkable,and appears to have been simply a caprice. Its effect certainlydoes not warrant the sort of admiration which should leadany modern architect engaged in studying the church torecommend the copying of the relative positions of it and itsbell-tower. I ought not to forget one feature—the buttress—which is treated here in quite the French or Englishfashion, with bold projection and good steep sloped weather-ings instead of in the usual Italian fashion as a mere pilaster. North of the nave of the church is a good cloister, on theeast side of which is a fine squ

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