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 264
Biick window — S. Andrea, Mantua. is really of great consequence to the perfection ofany pointed work. The faulty portions ofthis campanile are theelaborate arcadings inbrick beneath the string-courses, and the ratherawkward and abruptmanner in which the octa -gonal stage and the roundtile spire… … 188 MANTUA. Chap. IX. people of Mantua is shown by the opening pierced inits lower stage, in front of which the modestly with-drawn folds of a green curtain disclose the interiordevoted to a barbers shop, and in which the patient,seated in the middle of the shop, and looking into thePiazza, submits…
