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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 411

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ich must, Iimagine, have been pinnacles. The ordinary bricks usedhere are about 10 in. x 3 in. in size, and laid with very widejoints of mortar; those used for window-jambs and archesare of much deeper colour and finer clay than the others.There is something quite refreshing in coming suddenlyand… … 60.—WEST END, S. FRANCESCO, PAVIA. Iage Cfcl. Chap. X.] SANTA MA!tlA DEL CARMINE. 281 fine row of pointed windows, but tliey have been all de-stroyed to make way for Eenaissance improvements. Thereare very large buttresses dividing the bays in this aisle—afeature which is unusual in Italy, and…

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