. Brick and marble in the middle ages: notes of tours in the north of Italy . Isr ?WhUm>»jo i/A^ t. M« ( „;^«(u--/-! Ifcc 21. $fi|TT:?^j\ITO]^IO. PADU^ 147 \ Chap. A^ri.] SANT ANTONIO. 147 pointed-arclied and open arcade of the cloister; above thisrise the gahle of the south transept and the eastern apsewith its surrounding aisle, and two lofty octagonal brickturrets, on each side of the apse, which look like minaretsfrom Cairo, and combined with the collections of domes onthe roof give a completely Eastern eftect to the whole , however, the detail of this strikin
. Brick and marble in the middle ages: notes of tours in the north of Italy . Isr ?WhUm>»jo i/A^ t. M« ( „;^«(u--/-! Ifcc 21. $fi|TT:?^j\ITO]^IO. PADU^ 147 \ Chap. A^ri.] SANT ANTONIO. 147 pointed-arclied and open arcade of the cloister; above thisrise the gahle of the south transept and the eastern apsewith its surrounding aisle, and two lofty octagonal brickturrets, on each side of the apse, which look like minaretsfrom Cairo, and combined with the collections of domes onthe roof give a completely Eastern eftect to the whole , however, the detail of this striking building is examined,one can hardly be satisfied. There is throughout, as there sooften is in Italy^ a sad want of skill and neatness in theadjustment of details as compared to what is common innorthern Gothic l)uildings. This indeed is a feature of allthe works of the Pisani, and gives them the character—socommon and so fatal in modern works—of being to a great extent the work of assistants and not of the Nothing can be much more clumsy than the prov
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