. Brick and marble in the middle ages: notes of tours in the north of Italy . 42.—GATEWAY, PALAZZO BELLA RAGIONE, MANTUA. Pa^e 43.—CAMPANILE. S. ANDREA, MANTUA. Chap. X.] SANT ANDREA. 259 is all of a kind of plate-tracery, consistini^, that is to say, ofcusped circles pierced in a tympanum within an inclosingarch; the shafts between the lights are of j)olished marble,and coupled one behind the other. The relative proportionof the cusps in this and in most other Italian buildings isvery good. In trefoils, for instance, the upper cusj) is usuallysmaller than the lower ; and in all good cus
. Brick and marble in the middle ages: notes of tours in the north of Italy . 42.—GATEWAY, PALAZZO BELLA RAGIONE, MANTUA. Pa^e 43.—CAMPANILE. S. ANDREA, MANTUA. Chap. X.] SANT ANDREA. 259 is all of a kind of plate-tracery, consistini^, that is to say, ofcusped circles pierced in a tympanum within an inclosingarch; the shafts between the lights are of j)olished marble,and coupled one behind the other. The relative proportionof the cusps in this and in most other Italian buildings isvery good. In trefoils, for instance, the upper cusj) is usuallysmaller than the lower ; and in all good cusping it must beso. Modern men generally reverse the order, and, at thepresent day, so little is the subject really understood that atleast ninety-nine out of every hundred cusped window-openings are designed without feeling, and quite unlike thebest old examples; and this, though apparently a point ofvery small importance, is really of great consequence to theperfection of any pointed work. The faulty portions of this campanile are the elaboratearcadings in brick beneaththe string-courses, and theawkward and abrupt mannerin
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