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 355
he cornice, the featurewhich, above all others, must most startle men who,for the first time, make acquaintance with Italianwork, and which most recalls in its idea the classicprototype ; for, though its treatment in detail is asunlike that of the ancients as it can well be, it is,nevertheless, so… … Cornice — S. Francesco, Brescia. The ordinary northern parapet is never used, theeaves almost always finishing with the common Italiantiles projecting slightly over the deep cornice of thewalls. We have nothing at all parallel to these cor-nices in England, and I remember but few examples Chap.…
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