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 414
are exceedingly rich in terra-cotta ornaments, and throughoutthe exterior of the church and other buildings it is remarkablehow very elaborate these ornamental mouldings are ; theyare left in the natural reddish colour, and, as the walls arewhitewashed, they have a very singular effect. We… … Chap. X.] MILAN. 285 There are now1 twenty-five monks at the Certosa, and thenumber appears to have been gradually on the increasesince the reconstitution of the monastery in 1844 ; it wascertainly very gratifying to see that, whilst all the rest ofthe buildings looked forlorn and dilapidated, the…
