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 276
Chap. IX. PALACE OF JURIST CONSULTS. 197 The baptistery, which, as has been said, stands south-west of the Duomo, is entered by a doorway with a … Rose window — Cremona Cathedral. projecting porch, whose shafts rest on the backs ofanimals. It is entirely of brick, very simple in all itsdetail, and octagonal in its plan. There are threealtars in it, and an immense erection of masonry inthe centre, which I could not understand, though Isupposed…
