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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lding is the enormous hall, no less than72 feet wide inside, and covered with a great arched timberroof boarded on the under side, and divided into verticalpanels by bold ribs painted black and white. This roofis held together by two tiers of iron ties, and being archedand boarded at the end as well as at the sides, has some-what the look of the inverted hull of a great ship. Theeffect is imposing, though at the same time it is somewhatgloomy, owing to the absence of all high light. This great hall was Gothic inside and out until Palladiocased the front with open arcades, standing out from thewalls and entirely concealing from below the old windows.These were large single lights with moulded jambs, but notof very good style. The original staircase remains withgood marble shafted balustrades. The old work here is saidto have been done before the year 1444, the hall havingbeen burnt in 1380. This date is of some importance, asthe walls of the upper portion are faced like the upper stage
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Vaiai. VII.) GOTHIC PALACES. lol of the Ducal Palace at Venice, with marble arranged in adiaper. The slender and lofty tower of brick which rises at oneend of the building, the two Venetian columns (Vicenzabecame subject to Venice in 1404), and the Palazzo itself,in spite of its small architectural merit, combine to makea charming picture, rendered more beautiful when I saw it,by the animated crowd of peasants who filled the Piazza.The streets here are very picturesque, rather in spite ofPalladio and Scamozzi than in consequence of what theydid. Some of them are arcaded, and the Gothic houses arestill very numerous. They are all, however, of late date—at least I saw none earlier than about 1350. They are of thesame design as some of the well-known Venetian palaces, onlyhere they rise out of narrow streets, instead of as they dothere from the water. The usual arrangement is to have onthe ground floor a single doorway, not necessarily central, andon the inano nohile a fine traceried w

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