. Brick and marble in the middle ages: notes of tours in the north of Italy . 8—, BRESCIA. Paja 6». Chap. V.] BROLETTO. 69 stands in the same Piazza. The main portion of this immensel)uikling appears to have been built rather early in thetliirteenth century. The arches throughout are both roundand pointed, used indifferently ; but this mixture does notbetoken any diversity of date, as it would in —, BKKSCIA. A large quadrangle is formed by the buildings, which hasa cloister on two sides, and traces of another cloister on athird side now built up. The clois
. Brick and marble in the middle ages: notes of tours in the north of Italy . 8—, BRESCIA. Paja 6». Chap. V.] BROLETTO. 69 stands in the same Piazza. The main portion of this immensel)uikling appears to have been built rather early in thetliirteenth century. The arches throughout are both roundand pointed, used indifferently ; but this mixture does notbetoken any diversity of date, as it would in —, BKKSCIA. A large quadrangle is formed by the buildings, which hasa cloister on two sides, and traces of another cloister on athird side now built up. The cloister still remaining on theeast side is ancient and on a large scale; it opens to thequadrangle with simple pointed arches resting upon heavypiers, and a row of piers running down the centre divides itinto two portions, so that it may be judged that its size is very 70 BRESCIA. [Chap. V considerable. The groining has transverse and diagonal ribs,the former being very remarkable, and, as not unfrequentlyseen in good Italian work, slightly ogeed; not, that is to say,regular ogee arches, but ordinary arches with the slightestsuggestion only of an ogee curve in the centre. Of theexternal portion of the building the west front is the mostperfect, and must always have been the finest; it consistsof a building containing in the upper story five windows,the centre being the largest, and possibly once the Ein- KALE
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