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 416
are exceedingly rich in terra-cotta ornaments, and throughoutthe exterior of the church and other buildings it is remarkablehow very elaborate these ornamental mouldings are ; theyare left in the natural reddish colour, and, as the walls arewhitewashed, they have a very singular effect. We… … Chap. X.] ^r[LAN. 285 Tliere are now^ twenty-five monks at the Certosa, and theunmher appears to have been gradually on the increasesince the reconstitiition of the monastery in 1844 ; it wascertainly very gratifying to see that, whilst all the rest ofthe buildings looked forlorn and dila^^idated.…
