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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 160

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Chap. VI.] DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE. 105 house at various times, but in the sketch which I give Ihave shewn so much only of it as appeared to belong to theoriginal foundation. In its construction pointed and roundarches have been used quite indiscriminately, and in some ofthe arches the depth of the… … DOORWAY—OLD HOUSK, VERONA. with the effect of strength and good proportion which itproduces. Most of the arches are built with alternatevoussoirs of brick and stone, but beyond the outside line ofthe brick and stone arch there is invariably a line of verythin bricks laid all round the arch,…

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