Brick and marble in the Middle Ages: notes of a tour in the north of Italy (1855)
Street, George Edmund, 1824-1881 · London, J. Murray · leaf 101
s on our minds of our first Lombardcathedral; and yet undoubtedly there is both here andat Aix-la-Chapelle—where the plan of the cathedral is 66 BRESCIA, Chap. V. SO very similar—■much to admire in the idea of thephin, and I can quite imagine that a very noble andglorious church might in any age… … Cloister — Broletto, Brescia. The arches throughout are both round and pointed,and very much mixed together; but this mixture pro- S. Gereon, at Cologne, is a magnificent example of a church upon thesame kind of plan; a grand choir projected from a decagonal nave, theeffect of which is most noble.…
