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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 260

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proportion of the cusps inthis and in most other Italian buildings is very good.In trefoils, for instance, the upper cusp is by farsmaller than the lower; and in all good cusping it mustbe so. Modern men generally reverse the order, and,at the present day, so little is the subject really… … 25.—GATEWAY, PALAZZO BELLA BAGIONE, MANTDA

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