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 155
. There is a sharpness and hardness about the lines of thearches, however, which perhaps almost verges upon rudeness,and, though lean see that it may be fairly defended, I couldyet wish that it might have been softened. But the points in which such work is a grand exampleto us are, first, the value… … CHEST OF METAL RAILING—VEKONA. this monument and most of its class teach us lessons whichwe ought not to be unwilling to learn, and which, if we at all Chap. VI.] STA. MARIA LANTIC A. 103 wish to clevelope beyond the point at which our own an-cestors ever arrived, we must not fail to attend to in…