The cathedrals and churches of northern Italy (1907)
Bumpus, T. Francis (Thomas Francis), 1861-1916 · London, T. W. Laurie · leaf 389
l by the beauty of form into whichthey worked it. One of the earliest Lombard examples, St Michele atPavia, is indeed altogether stone and marble, at least ex-ternally, and no one who looks upon its rude, sculpturedfront and massive pillars within can fail to recognize herethe source of our own… … SOME LOMBARD CATHEDRALS But after this early and, if I mistake not, unique ex-ample, the use of brick becomes universally prevalent; atfirst in alternate stripes of brick and stone as in the Cathe-dral at Verona, then brick with marble columns and orna-ments as in the Campanile of St Gothardo, then…
Church architecture · Cathedrals
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