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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 324

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rcaded string-course. This second stage has threewindows only over the four arches below; and anothervery noticeable irregularity is, that one of thesewindow^s, and that not the central, has a pedimentalcanopy above its arch, and has more shafts than theothers. The central window has been… … Chap. X. THE BROLETTO. 233 are semicircular, the back of the stones which formthem is cut with a different sweep, so as to produce anouter pointed line, and thus to leave an impression onthe mind of absolutely pointed windows. Anotherarcaded corbel-table finishes the fa9ade, or rather oughtto…

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