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 453
t of red brick. Behind the 310 PIACENZA. [Chap. XL open ground story there remains a portion of an internalquadrangle, which, incomplete as it is, shews, nevertheless,the same delicate attention to detail which is conspicuous onthe facades. I know hardly any detail of Italian brickworkwhich is so… … BRICKWORK—PALAZZO PUBLICO, PIACENZA. placed over openings, and round and pointed arches usedindifferently—quoted for our benefit as a remarkable exampleof a public building erected in the Middle Ages in the mostregular and formal fashion ! It is, on the contrary, if theplain truth is to be spoken,…
