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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 376

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on ofthe building by the goodpeople of Mantua is shewnby the opening jiierced inits lower stage, in front ofwhich the modestly with-drawn folds of a green cur- ,„^,,^ ^v,m,ow-s.vkt .kbuk., makxua.tain disclose the interior devoted to a barbers shop, and in which the patient, seatedin the middle of… … 260 MANTUA. [Chap. X. The guide-books sj^eak of tlie clmrch of Saiit Andrea as among the finest existing specimens of an interior in therevived Koman style. If it really is so, I advise allarchitects interested in the failure of the said- style toventure, notwithstanding the forbidding west front,…

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