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 246
nament, formed by recess-ing the brickwork, and a mixture of red and buff brick-work, which is very effective. The last time I was here, I found myself, in the middle ofmaking a sketch of the west front of Sta, Fosca, suddenlystruck by the strange likeness of its octagonal cloister to the Chai>.… … EAST ESD—tTA. FOSCA, TORCELLO. those in the wings are narrow and considerably stilted. InSta. Fosca precisely the same effect is produced by theelevation of the three sides of the octagonal cloister, two ofthem being reduced in width and seeming to have narrowstilted arches, owing to their being…
