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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 386

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ecusping of brick arches isalways managed in the sam(^way; the bricks all radiatewith the arch (not from thecentre of the cusp), and lookas though they might havebeen built, allowing plenty of length of brick for the cusps,and then cut to the proper outline, the edges of thecusi)s being almost… … BRICK WINDOW —CUKMONA CATHIiDBAL. 268 CREMONA. [Chap. X. which runs up the gables under the eaves-cornice—so heavyand so rude-looking, that, taken by itself, it would probablybe put down as being of much earlier date than it really is.The facade finishes with three heavy pinnacles arcaded allround,…

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