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 475
s not much architec-tural art to be studied or dwelt upon in Milan. Thecathedral, too, teaches little; its main office is, rather, toprove the consummate beauty and magnificence attainableby the pointed style, carried out severely and simply on thevery grandest scale, and this its interior does… … Chap. XII.] THE BRERA. 329 to see the magnificent Sposalizio of BafFaelle, which is thegem of the collection in the Brera; and this famous gallerywas therefore one of the first objects of my curiosity. Thecareful examination of the pictures which adorn its wallswas, however, when we were there,…
