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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 462

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r lo aGerman working in Italy; and if Marco da Campione was the arciiitoct, oneis compelled, by tlic logic of the building itself, to say that eitiier he hadstudied north of the Alps with a view to perfecting his design, or that hedepended very largely on the ludp given him by sucli men as Henry… … GROUND-PLAN—MILAN CATHEDRAL. at the top with pinnacles, whose thin outline, seen againstthe deep blue sky, is painfully bad and unsatisfying. The 318 MILAN. [Chap. XIT. panelling of the walls is continued up to their whole heightwithout any decided line of parapet or cornice, and finishesin a rough…

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