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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 491

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some extent striking; but, much as I admired theconjunction of the two marbles, and the more than usuallyGothic character of some of the details, there was yetenough in the ungainly outline of the sham front, and inthe capricious use of round and pointed arches indiflerently,to damp my pleasure,… … ^}l; LblXO, MOMZA. Pdje 337. Chai>. XII.] THE BROLETTO. 337 all coustnictional, this is eutirely so, the marbles not beingveneered on to the wall, but forming a portion of itssubstance. I need not say that in this respect, when wewish to use marble in England, the paucity of our supplieswill…

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