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 273
ffective, surpassing in its way anything I have yetseen. The putlog-holes are left unfilled, as they almostalways are in Italy. The only stone used is in thedoorway and the window-shafts, and these last arealmost always coupled in depth. The windows areelaborately moulded, and courses of chevrons,… … Brick window — Cremona Cathedral. I^he cnsping of brick arches is always managed in the same way ; the bricks allradiate with the arch (notfrom the centre of cusp),and look as though theymight have been built, al-lowing plenty of length ofbrick for the cusps, andthen cut to the properoutline, and…
