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 264
Brick wiudow — S. AnJiva, Matilua. is really of great consequence to tlie perfection ofany pointed work. The faulty portions ofthis campanile are theelaborate arcadings inbrick beneath the string-courses, and the ratherawkward and abruptmanner in which the octa-gonal stage andthe roundtile spire… … 188 MANTUA. Chap. IX. people of Mantua is shown by the opening pierced inits lower stage, in front of which the modestly with-drawn folds of a green curtain disclose the interiordevoted to a barbers shop, and in which the patient,seated in the middle of the shop, and looking into thePiazza, submits…
