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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 174

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arved capitals, and looking almosttoo slight to support the vast height of clerestory wallwhich towers up above the arcade which they carry. Thetimber roof, or ceiling, is curious ; the framing is all con-cealed, with the exception of the collar-beams, which connectthe 2M)ints of the trefoil which… … o <P riiAi>. VI.] SAN ZENONE. 113 cross the nave, is certainly fine. Tlie wooden roofs of theaisles, too, are original, and their beams are painted verymuch like the Aiistrian sentry-hoxes, in zigzag lines of l)lackand huff. Much of this painting, however, did not appearto me to he old. At…

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