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 536
g in Italian buildings becamesteadily worse and worse. Most of the later Venetiancapitals are bad in their outline, confused and purposeless 1 English examples may be seen in the western porch of Fountains Abbey,and among the extensive fragments of Egglestonc Abbey, near BurnaidCastle. Chap. XIV.]… … i CORNICE—SAN FRANCESCO, BRESCIA. And, next, we come to the cornice, the feature whichabove all others must most startle men who, for the firsttime, make acquaintance with Italian work, and which mostrecalls in its idea its Classic prototype; for, though itstreatment in detail is as unlike that of…
