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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efiect is concerned. South of the church are two cloisters; that nearest to thechurch of ordinary size, but the other, to which it leads,prodigious in its dimensions, and very singular in its effect,being surrounded at regular intervals by the houses of themonks rising out of and above the regular line of the cloisterroof. I went into one of these houses, and found its accom-modation exceedingly ample; three rooms, closets, and a gar-den being provided for each monk. The arches of the cloistersare exceedingly rich in terra-cotta ornaments, and throughoutthe exterior of the church and other buildings it is remarkablehow very elaborate these ornamental mouldings are ; theyare left in the natural reddish colour, and, as the walls arewhitewashed, they have a very singular effect. We foundhere, as at other places, men busily engaged in making castsfor the Crystal Palace at Sydenham, whose managers certainlyseemed to have ordered c^sts of everything that could bemodelled throughout Europe !
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Chap. X.) ^r(LAN. 285 Tliere are now^ twenty-five monks at the Certosa, and theunmher appears to have been gradually on the increasesince the reconstitiition of the monastery in 1844 ; it wascertainly very gratifying to see that, whilst all the rest ofthe buildings looked forlorn and dila^^idated. the churchitself was most scruj)ulously well preserved, presenting inthis respect a great contrast to the fate of monastic churchesgenerally in the Xorth of Italy. A tedious drive by the side of a long straight canal,passing on our way large well-managed farms and othersigns of uncommon agricultural activity, took us from theCertosa to )\(ilan ; and long before we arrived there thewhite pinnacles of the Duomo, with the Alps in the fardistance, came in sight; certainly, seen thus, the Duomo isone of the least satisfactory or imposing great churches Ihave ever seen, and does but little in the way of impartingcharacter—as most cathedrals do—to the city which lies atits foot. At last we reac

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