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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 146

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st deeply the great and religious effect of thechurch. To an eye used to northern Gothic there issomething very new in such a building. Its shape,its materials, its arrangement, are all so unlike whatan Enghsh eye is used to, that I paused for an instantin doubt as to whether I might really admire… … Chap. VI. S. ZENONE. 99 The general plan is very simple—n great paral-lelogram, divided into a nave of vast width withnorthern and southern aisles; the aisles terminatedwith square east ends, the choir with an apse offive bays, which is, however, of very much laterdate than the rest of the church.…

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