. Brick and marble in the middle ages: notes of tours in the north of Italy . only of marble with our encaustic tileswe should attain to much greater beauty of effect than wecan by the use of tiles alone, and there are many towns—as,, Plymouth^the very pavement of whose streets is of amaterial which might most advantageously be introduced,more often than it has yet been, inside the walls of oursanctuaries, as well as under the feet of every passer alongthe streets. 90 VERONA. [Chap. VI. There are some monumeiius and paintings here quiteworth looking at. The Pellegrini Chapel, next to the c
. Brick and marble in the middle ages: notes of tours in the north of Italy . only of marble with our encaustic tileswe should attain to much greater beauty of effect than wecan by the use of tiles alone, and there are many towns—as,, Plymouth^the very pavement of whose streets is of amaterial which might most advantageously be introduced,more often than it has yet been, inside the walls of oursanctuaries, as well as under the feet of every passer alongthe streets. 90 VERONA. [Chap. VI. There are some monumeiius and paintings here quiteworth looking at. The Pellegrini Chapel, next to the choir,has two fine trefoil-headed monuments in red marble withthe background painted with subjects of about the sameage (circa 1392); and in the Cavalli Chapel there is anadmirably painted wall, against which has been put amonument which, though somewhat rude and coarse in itssculpture, nevertheless produces a very fine effect of colourand architecture combined.^ The window tracery of Sta. Anastasia is rather singularplate tracery, consisting of mere piercings through the.
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