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 363
invariablycomposed of nothing but red brick, with occasionalbut rare use of stonework; the bricks for the ordinarywalling are generally rather larger than ours, in noway superior in their quality, and not unfrequentlybuilt coarsely with a wide joint of mortar. Thoseused for windows, doorways, and… … String-course — Palace of Jurist-Consults, Cremona. campanile of Cremona Cathedral are instances of redbrick used without any intermixture of stone save inthe shafts of the windows, and their effect is certainlyvery grand. The mouldings are elaborate, and theway in which cusping is formed…
