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 140
nobleeffect of strength andgood proportion whichit produces. Most ofthe arches are built withalternate voussoirs ofbrick and stone, but be-yond the outside lineof the brick and stonearch there is invariablya line of very thinbricks laid all round thearch, delicately definingwithout pretending… … Doorway — old houses Verona. 94 VERONA. Chap. VT. ones, and are always bnilt witli very coarse joints.Tliis house is finished at the top with the quaintforked or swallow-tailed battlement, so characteristicof Verona, that I must call it the Veronese battlementfor distinction, and which, as we found…
