. Brick and marble in the middle ages: notes of tours in the north of Italy . AISLE WJNDOWS—DUOMO, UDINK. sculptured tympanum with a curious assortment of subjects;in the centre the Crucilixion, right and left of this theResurrection and an Agnus Dei, and above it the circular windows light the three centre divisions ofthe front, and the two lower are connected by a broad bandof brick arches which crosses the entire front just below thecentral circuLu window. There is not a word to be said infavour of such a design. It is old, and that is its only virtue !. 3$. jyii^fiO. ITDIjXf
. Brick and marble in the middle ages: notes of tours in the north of Italy . AISLE WJNDOWS—DUOMO, UDINK. sculptured tympanum with a curious assortment of subjects;in the centre the Crucilixion, right and left of this theResurrection and an Agnus Dei, and above it the circular windows light the three centre divisions ofthe front, and the two lower are connected by a broad bandof brick arches which crosses the entire front just below thecentral circuLu window. There is not a word to be said infavour of such a design. It is old, and that is its only virtue !. 3$. jyii^fiO. ITDIjXfE. p. 250. \ CiiAi. IX.] DUUMO. 251 The tower is more interesting, though it is only an incom-plete fragment. The lower stage is of stone built in dark andliglit courses, with a large sunk recess on each side. On thewest side is a fine doorway built of alternate courses of whitemarble and serpentine, and there are small circular windowsin tlio cardinal sides just above the lowest stage. Above thesetlie whole is a plain mass of brickwOrk, of which a very smallportion only seems to be original. This tower is no less ) feet in outside diameter, and its lowest stage isfinely groined, with no provision for the passage of might almost as well have been intended for a baptisteryas for a tower ! It stands close to the north side of the choir,and by its side is a rather fine doorway leading into thetransept, with a good deal of late Gothic sculpture and archi-tectural detail. There are niches and figures in the jambs andround the arch, the Coronation
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