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 477
not much architec-tural art to be studied or dwelt upon in Milan. Thecathedral, too, teaches little; its main office is, rather, toprove tlie consummate beauty and magnificence attainableby the pointed style, carried out severely and simply on thevery grandest scale, and this its interior does… … Chap. XIl.] THE BRER A. 320 to see the m;i<^iiificent Sposalizio of liafliaelle, which is thegem of the collection in the Brera; and this famous gallerywas therefore one of the first objects of my curiosity. Thecareful examination of the pictures which adorn its wallswas, however, when we were…