. Brick and marble in the middle ages: notes of tours in the north of Italy . 1300, but it was soonfound to be inconvenient to have open traceries for the uppercorridor, and the arches on the other two sides were filled inbefore the middle of the fourteenth century with very gootltwo-light windows. Fortunately the whole of this work isstill in very excellent preservation, and deserves much morenotice and study than it has ever, I believe, received.^ Theordinary bricks used here measure 10;^ in. x 5 in. and are 3 , whilst in San Pantaleone they are 3| in. high and asmuch as 15 in. l
. Brick and marble in the middle ages: notes of tours in the north of Italy . 1300, but it was soonfound to be inconvenient to have open traceries for the uppercorridor, and the arches on the other two sides were filled inbefore the middle of the fourteenth century with very gootltwo-light windows. Fortunately the whole of this work isstill in very excellent preservation, and deserves much morenotice and study than it has ever, I believe, received.^ Theordinary bricks used here measure 10;^ in. x 5 in. and are 3 , whilst in San Pantaleone they are 3| in. high and asmuch as 15 in. long. Here (as generally in the centre of Italy)the bricks have all been dressed with a chisel, with whichdiagonal lines have been marked all over the face. I canonly assume that this has been done to improve the texture 1 Mr. Griiner has published some very careful drawings of these , iuwhich he has rest ircd the painted decorations witli which the coloured con-struction of the walls was enriched. The style of decoiation was mucli likethat of Sta. Auastusia. ^Ma. 7^f> 3&£4<-
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