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 94
^porting the U2)per part of thebuilding is throughout bold and sim^jle, and I should sayof the thirteenth century; the bases are quite northernin their section, the caps rather less deej) in their cutting,but still in their general design, and in the grouping of tuftsof drooping foliage regularly… … Chap. IV.] SlA. MAKIA MAGGIOKE. 55 striifTgle, in the hand of the carver, between the Classic andGothic principles, in which the latter never quite assertedthe mastery. The lesson to be learnt from such a buildingas this Broletto appears to mc to be the excessive value ofsimplicity and regularity…
