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 229
tage. There are throughout this front many medal-lions of dark marble, which, let into a field of lightmarble, are most brilliant in their effect. The most remarkable features in the Ca dOro are,however, the triple and elaborately carved and chev-roned angle-shafts, which I have nowhere else… … Chap. VIII. PALACES. 163 the noticeable division in the building itself thanfor any other reason. A very small portion only ofthe parapet is perfect, and this it is rather difficult toget at, but its general effect will be understood onreference to plate 21, in which I have drawn thewhole palace.…
