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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but over the centre of the crossingstill rises a brick lantern and steeple of singular interest.My engraving will explain what the character of this work is,better than any words. The construction is singular. Behindthe base of the second stage of the great octagon a spire isconstructed which carries the upper steeple, and the whole ofthe walls pierced with the second, third, and fourth series ofwindows are really only screen-walls or parapets in front ofthe spire. The height of the v.hole lantern from the ridge tothe base of the spire is about ninety feet, and the efiect ofthe complicated brickwork is not bad. It is somewliat diffi-cult to say exactly when it was built. The Certosa itself wasfounded in 1135, and consecrated in 1228, but my impressionis decidedly that though the whole steeple is built withround arches, it is not refilly a work of earlier date than aboutA. u. 1370 to 1400. The steeple of San Gottardo in Milan,which also has round arches everywhere, and is in some other
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<S0. CEI^TOSA OF CHlRX(hVhUhE p.33 0. (■iiAP. XII.) An^.IKJELLT. 331 respects sonicwliat similar in detail to this, dates from 1339,and it would be a great mistake to argue for an earlier datein either case from the mere use of the round arch. If Irecollect right, the low third stage in height at Chiaravalleis modern. Milan was on the whole rather clisajipointing to me inmy architectural capacity, though pleasant enough in everyother; and after I had lounged and driven about, first in onedirection and then in another, and had really enjoyed my lastgreat Italian city very much, finding that little more was tobe done but to eat ices, look at smart carriages on the Corso,and long for more chance of a clear view of the Alps than thehazy sultry weather afibrded, I made up my mind to leaveearlier than I had originally intended. No architectural student should turn his feet homewardfrom Milan without having first of all visited Vercelli. It iseasily reached by railway, passing on the ro

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