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 548
ged to go to the Continentfor information. Italian brickwork is remarkable as being almost alwaysexecuted with nothing but red bricks, with occasional butrare use of stonework; the bricks for the ordinary wallingare generally rather larger than ours, in no way superior intheir quality, and always… … STRING-COURSE—PALACE OF JUKISCONSULTS, CREMONA. the greatest care and skill. The transepts and campanile ofCremona Cathedral are instances of red brick used withoutany intermixture of stone save in the shafts of the windows,and their effect is certainly very grand. The mouldings areelaborate, and…
