. Brick and marble in the middle ages: notes of tours in the north of Italy . —, 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
. Brick and marble in the middle ages: notes of tours in the north of Italy . —, 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-. i DETAIL OF CIRCULAR WINEOW—BKOLETTO, BRESCIA. ghiera, to the south of which rises the great belfry of roughstone, and beyond that a wide building with traces—butno more—of many of the original windows; north of thebuilding with the five windows is a very beautiful compositionexecuted almost entirely in finely-moulded bricks; it has anexquisite door with some traces of fresco in its tympanum,executed mainly in stone, of wliich I give a drawing, and amagnificent brick rose window, above which is a brick cornice,which continues over the remainder of the west front andalong the whole of the north side. Chap. V.] BROLETTO. 71 The size of the buikling is prodigious, and certainly thedetail of all the parts (excepting perhaps the cornice, which
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