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 256
ch full of rich glass in order to dojustice to the scheme of the mediaeval architect. To the south of the nave are large uninteresting cloisters,and it is only at the east end that the exterior at all repaysthe ecclesiologist for the pains he must take to get all roundit. The view which I give will… … Chap. VNI.] CHURCH OF SS. GIOVANNI E PAOLO. 181 red marble in the eaves-arcading; the bricks are not par-ticularly good, and the terra-cotta borders, cornices, andornaments are poor and meagre in their design. The mostobservable point about the detail is the great and ugly splayon the exterior of…
