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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ion in 1099. It has the twelve Apostles on the jambs,and rude shafts carrying a canopy in front of it. The westdoorway has also a porch, and sculptures of the twelvemonths on its jambs. It is covered with carving of foliageand figures executed by the same Wiligelmus who wasemployed on the western doorway of San Zenone, Verona.Among other figures are those of King Arthur and hisknights, inscribed with his name,^ Artus de Bretania,above his head. The west front is very remarkable. Theends of the aisles have two arches inclosing small arcadessimilar to those in the bays of the side walls, and the end ofthe nave has the same arcade on each side of a porch of twostages in height, the lower of which is carried on detached Ml. Forkiiiy, Italian Sculptois, p. 251, says that tlie nationality ofWilit^clmus has been much disputeil. Kreuscr says tliat he came fromNiiinberg; and the re;)resentation of King Arthurs victoiies over theVisigotlis is adduced as a i>ro()f tliat he was not an Italian.
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o i^ Chap. XI.) THE CATHEDRAL. 305 shafts resting on lions backs. Tlie upper part of the porchwas altered in order that a great wheel window might beinserted, sometime in the foiirteentli century. This rose window fills the whole upper part of thewestern gable, and is, like many Italian examples, veryunskilful in its design. The vast number of divisions orspokes, and the very slight prominence of the arcuated partof the filling-in, make it look in very truth a wheel windowand nothing better. Above it are an insignificant figure ofOur Lord and the Emblems of the four Evangelists sculpturedin low relief. The lower portion of the walls is covered in■ the most promiscuous manner with bas-reliefs, and a medleyof mural tablets, the number of which would delight theeyes of an English parish clerk; but nevertheless the richcharacter given to the work by the fine shadows of thearcades in the lower half of the front, is worthy of specialnotice and recollection. The tower and spire are very lo

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