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 92
s supporting the upper part of thebuilding is throughout bold and simple, and I should sayof the thirteenth century; the bases are quite northernin their section, the caps rather less deep in their cutting,but still in their general design, and in the grouping of tuftsof drooping foliage regularly… … Chap. IV.] ST A. MA EI A MAGGIORE. 55 struggle, in the hand of the carver, between the Classic andGothic principles, in which the latter never quite assertedthe mastery. The lesson to be learnt from such a buildingas this Broletto appears to me to be the excessive value ofsimplicity and regularity…
