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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 98

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ee hundred feet in height, of goodand very simple pointed character,without any approach to buttressing,and remarkable as having an elabo-rately arcaded string-course a few feetbelow the belfry windows, which havegeometrical traceries enclosed withinsemi-circular arches, affording, like thesouth… … CAMlAKILK—BliUGAMO. GO BERGAMO. [Chap. IV. so distinct from and utterly unlike the steeples of NorthernEurope, that this, the first Gothic example I had seen,interested me exceedingly. Perhaps its detail was almosttoo little peculiar, if I may venture to say so; for certainlyit has left no such…

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