Brick and marble in the middle ages: notes of tours in the north of Italy (1874)
Street, George Edmund, 1824-1881 · London : J. Murray · leaf 157
There is a sharpness and hardness about the lines of thearches, however, which perhaps almost verges upon rudeness,and, though I can see that it may be fairly defended, I couldyet wish that it might have been softened. But the points in which such work is a grand exampleto us are, first, the value… … JtKST OF MlTAf, RAILING—VKKONA. this monument and most of its class teach us lessons whichwe ouglit not to be unwilling to learn, and which, if we at all Chap. VI.] STA. ^lAHIA LANTICA. 103 wish to (levelope beyond the point at which our own an-cestors ever arrived, we must not fail to attend to in…
