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 444
nds of the aisles have two arches inclosing small arcadessimilar to those in the bays of the side walls, and the end ofthe nave has the same arcade on each side of a porch of twostages in height, the lower of which is carried on detached 1 Mr. Perkins, Italian Sculptors/ p. 251, says that the… … Chap. XL] THE CATHEDRAL. 305 shafts resting on lions backs. The upper part of the porchwas altered in order that a great wheel window might beinserted, sometime in the fourteenth century. This rose window fills the whole upper part of thewestern gable, and is, like many Italian examples,…
