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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 277

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is upper stage is very simple and verybeautiful, and the whole is finished at the top with acornice and parapet, with battlements pointed at thetop like those in the Torrazzo, and not forked as w^ehave been lately so accustomed to see them. At oneend of this parapet a chimney rises above the… … Window-jamb — Palace of Jurist Consults, Cremona. There is a simplicity and truthfulness of constructionabout this little building which make it specially The chimneys so common in Venice are perhaps ancient, but, if so,they are also very ngly. Thej are cylindrical, with heads sloping out in…

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