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 101
on our minds of our first Lombardcathedral; and yet undoubtedly there is both here andat Aix-la-Chapelle—where the plan of the cathedral is F 66 BRESCIA. Chap. V. so very similar—much to admire in the idea of theplan, and I can qnite imagine that a very noble andglorious church might in any age… … Cloister — Broletto, Brescia. The arches throughout are both round and pointed,and very much mixed together; but this mixture pro- 1 S. Gereon, at Cologne, is a magnificent example of a church upon thesame kind of plan; a grand choir projected from a decagonal nave, theeffect of which is most…
