Inside Out Library · Explore

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 456

An illustration from Brick and marble in the Middle Ages : notes of tours in the north of Italy, 1874, leaf 456
withbrick pinnacles and cornices, and is higher than the transept.The hinges on the west door here are very good, and thewindows in the aisles—lancets with seven cusps in the head—are quite worth notice. Piacenza struck me, both in itschurches and Palazzo Publico, as a town which had pos-sessed a… … SECTION—SANT* ANTONINO, PIACENZA. The only other old work I noticed here was a house inthe Strada San Marco. This is all of brick, and has archesof slightly horse-shoe shape. The bricks are all axed onthe face, and are of large size —11 j inches long by about2| inches high. 314 ASTJ. [Chap. XI. Not…

Architecture, Medieval · Architecture · Architecture, Gothic

Internet Archive · Getty Research Institute · Public Domain Mark 1.0. Free to use for anything.

More pictures from Brick and marble in the Middle Ages : notes of tours in the north of Italy

More like this