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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 114

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ted from a decagonal nave, the effectof which is capital. No doubt such a nave does much more than merelysuggest the possibility of adapting the dome to Gothic buildings. S —BROLETTO, BRESCIA.. Chap. V.] BKOLETTO. 69 stands in the same Piazza. The main portion of this immensebuilding appears to… … CLOISTEU—BKOLETTO, BRESCIA. A large quadrangle is formed by the buildings, which hasa cloister on two sides, and traces of another cloister on athird side now built up. The cloister still remaining on theeast side is ancient and on a large scale; it opens to thequadrangle with simple pointed arches…

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