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 538
n Italian buildings becamesteadily worse and Avorse. Most of the later Venetiancapitals are bad in their outline, confused and purposeless Kiiglisli examples may Ik; scon in tlie wcstcru pdrcli of Fountains Abbey,anil among the extcnsivf fragments of Egglestonc Abbey, near BarnardCastle. Chap.… … CORNICE—SAN FRANCESCO, BRESCIA. And, next, we come to the cornice, the feature whichal)ove all others must most startle men who, for the firsttime, make acquaintance with Italian work, and which mostrecalls in its idea its Classic prototype; for, though itstreatment in detail is as unlike that of…
