History of mediæval art . Gothic was completelyeffected, that to the Renaissance began; this justifies, in a certainmeasure, the position of those who hold that, properly speaking,there never was an Italian Gothic style. * Compare the works quoted on page 309. Furthermore: R. Willis, Remarks on theArchitecture of the Middle Ages, especially of Italy. Cambridge, 1835.—F. Lose andL. Gruner, The Terracotta Architecture of North Italy. London, 1867.—G. Rohault deFleury, La Toscane au Moyen-Age. Paris, 1873. 566 THE EXTENSION OF GOTHIC ARCHITECTURE. It is not easy to give dates for the first appear
History of mediæval art . Gothic was completelyeffected, that to the Renaissance began; this justifies, in a certainmeasure, the position of those who hold that, properly speaking,there never was an Italian Gothic style. * Compare the works quoted on page 309. Furthermore: R. Willis, Remarks on theArchitecture of the Middle Ages, especially of Italy. Cambridge, 1835.—F. Lose andL. Gruner, The Terracotta Architecture of North Italy. London, 1867.—G. Rohault deFleury, La Toscane au Moyen-Age. Paris, 1873. 566 THE EXTENSION OF GOTHIC ARCHITECTURE. It is not easy to give dates for the first appearance of Gothicfeatures in Italy, and it is almost impossible to trace the mannerof their introduction. As has been already explained, the pointedarch of Sicilian architecture is to be referred to Arabian rather thanto French influences. But it cannot be ascertained whence camethe pointed arcades and arches in relief which early appear in NorthItaly, as, for instance, in the Church of S. Maria at Vezzolano in JL . , jL. Ug. Fig. 360.—Plan of S. Andrea atVercelli.
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