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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 367

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, is almost a solitaryexception) used stone in theirwindow tracery, and, as theynever developed the kind ofbrick plate tracery which isso characteristic of the bestItalian work, they built win-dows which were either baldand ugly in their simplicity,or else, endeavouring by the use of bricks,… … Verona.

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