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 140
nobleeffect of strength andgood proportion whichit produces. Most ofthe arches are built withalternate voussoirs ofbrick and stone, but be-yond the outside lineof the brick and stonearch there is invariablya line of very thinbricks laid all round thearch, delicately definingwithout pretending… … 94 VERONA. Chap. VI. ones, and are always built with very coarse joints.This house is finished at the top with the quaintforked or swallow-tailed battlement, so characteristicof Yerona, that I must call it the Veronese battlementfor distinction, and which, as we found afterwards, was
