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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 98

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The win-dows are marked by the same elaboration of their sillswhich we noticed in the Broletto at Bergamo, and thedetail of these, as also of the corbeUing out from thewall of several chimney-breasts, was exceedingly good. In a back street in the village I found a house thebalconies around which… … Detail of windows and corbeUing for cliimneys — Coccaglio. 64 BRESCIA. Chap. Y. Italy than they are in the North, and I particularlynotice this little relic, therefore, which still remains toshow how well the science of moulding was sometimesunderstood even there. Such a village as Coccaglio is, as…

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