. Brick and marble in the middle ages: notes of tours in the north of Italy . ^^isTS^r— 53. Sft|^ pETi-^oi^io. p. 291i CiiAi. XI.] SAN PETRONIO. 291 The streets are not of tlie best. They are very narrow,and often arcaded with pointed arclies snpported on circuLarcolumns, but contain few houses of any interest, whilst thechurches have been a good deal altered and damaged inmodern times. The cathedral is a recent building of no beauty. Twolions which once supported the columns of a Lombarddoorway now carry the holy-water stoups; and in a passagenear the sacristy is a carved, painted, and
. Brick and marble in the middle ages: notes of tours in the north of Italy . ^^isTS^r— 53. Sft|^ pETi-^oi^io. p. 291i CiiAi. XI.] SAN PETRONIO. 291 The streets are not of tlie best. They are very narrow,and often arcaded with pointed arclies snpported on circuLarcolumns, but contain few houses of any interest, whilst thechurches have been a good deal altered and damaged inmodern times. The cathedral is a recent building of no beauty. Twolions which once supported the columns of a Lombarddoorway now carry the holy-water stoups; and in a passagenear the sacristy is a carved, painted, and gilded rood of thetwelfth century—a piece of furniture which is rarely foundremaining in Italian churches. The grandest church inBologna is undoubtedly San Petronio, which is well placedon one side of the Piazza Maggiore. It was not commenceduntil 1390, so that we must not be surprized to find thefaults in detail which mark the period. But the generalscheme of the church is so magnificent that these faultsdo not strike the eye at all offensively. As it sta
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