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 342
nelled in small square panels.The whole of this ceiling is painted, and with extremelygood effect, though the only colours used are black, white, andbrownish yellow. Each panel is filled with a small paintedhexagon filled with tracery painted in black and white, andall the ribs and leading lines… … Chap. IX.] THE DUOMO. 245 to be owing to the large amount of white in the panels.Near the west end of the north aisle is a singular circularerection, which is said by the cicerone to be the receptaclefor the holy oil, but which without this information I shouldhave taken for the baptistery. It is a…
