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 420
h scrolls.1 The tympanum of the archhas a sculpture of S. George and the Dragon, and the lintelbelow it eight subjects, beginning with the Salutation, andending with the Baptism, of Our Lord. At the top of thisstage is an inscription which contains the date given above. 1 Said to have been carved… … Chap. XT.] THE CATHEDRAL. 289 The next stage is later, and has three arches with traceriescarried upon chevroned and twisted shafts, with a statue ofthe Virgin and Child in the centre. This stage forms a sortof balcony. The upper stages are covered with sculpture.In the gable is Our Lord as Judge…
