The cathedrals and churches of northern Italy, their history and their architecture; (1908)
Bumpus, T. Francis (Thomas Francis) · Boston, L.C. Page and company · leaf 136
d in some of their works by the bestItalian artists. In saying this I by no meansgive the palm to the Italian artist; far fromit. But his work has certain tender graces,especially in its detail, which has never beensurpassed. There is some charming brickwork in thefourteenth-century Gothic church… … The Cathedrals of Northern Italy but it displays one of those features of shamconstruction to which I have drawn atten-tion both in Italy and in Germany, i. e., thescreen wall carried up high above the roofs,but of no possible use. It occurs in St.Fermo, in the east end, where we have acentral and…
Church architecture · Cathedrals
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