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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 288

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even more than usually elaborate; andapart from the general outline of the mass, whichpinnacles and pilasters cannot redeem from ugliness,there is considerable beauty in the group of windowsand doors arranged so as to rise gradually as it wereto the centre. The cornices are very heavy andelaborate,… … 29.—WEST FRONT. S. PANTALEONE, PAVIA.

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