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 455
f red brick. Behind the 310 PIACENZA. [Chap. XI. open grouud story there remains a portion of an internalquadrangle, which, incomplete as it is, sIicays, nevertheless,the same delicate attention to detail which is conspicuous onthe fapades. I know hardly any detail of Italian brickworkwhich is so… … BItlCKWORK—IALAZZO PUBLICO, TIACENZA. placed over openings, and round and pointed arches usedindifferently—quoted for our benefit as a remarkable exampleof a public building erected in the Middle Ages in the mostregular and formal fashion ! It is, on the contrary, if theplain truth is to be spoken,…
