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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 384

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heir outline and mass. And yet there is abreadth and grandeur of scale about them which doessomewhat to redeem their faults, and a beauty about muchof their detail which I cannot but admire extremely. Bothtransepts are almost entirely built of brick and very similar ,in their general idea; but,… … 14.—NOKTH TEANSEPT, CATHEDRAL, CREMONA, Chap. X.] THE DUOMO. 267 former. The filliug-iu of stilted round-arched windows withogee pointed tracery and much delicate cusping gives thesouth transept a singularly Eastern look, and it is impossiblenot to feel that some such influence has been…

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