. An encyclopaedia of architecture, historical, theoretical, & practical. New ed., rev., portions rewritten, and with additions by Wyatt Papworth. is supposed to haveol)tained the design there brfore he negotiated at theGerman court in the course of his return to Italy ;others say that he sent a model Irom England. 612. Tiie church of San Francesco at Assist waserected 1228-:?0. by a German arcliitect named Ja-cobus: the aisles being added soon afterwards byF. da Campellb. This structure has attaintd thecharacter of being the most j)ei feet specimen of Gothicart in Italy, and therefore far sup
. An encyclopaedia of architecture, historical, theoretical, & practical. New ed., rev., portions rewritten, and with additions by Wyatt Papworth. is supposed to haveol)tained the design there brfore he negotiated at theGerman court in the course of his return to Italy ;others say that he sent a model Irom England. 612. Tiie church of San Francesco at Assist waserected 1228-:?0. by a German arcliitect named Ja-cobus: the aisles being added soon afterwards byF. da Campellb. This structure has attaintd thecharacter of being the most j)ei feet specimen of Gothicart in Italy, and therefore far suptrior to Sta. Chiara,erectid 1253 by Campello in the same citj. It isone of the most singular cliurclies in Europe, as, inpossessing a crypt discovered in 1818, and enlarged,1820 by Hrizi, it forms a soit of three-storied middle church was built 122S-:52; the upperchurch, a magnificent work, iiuilt 1232-53, is nowonly used on a few capitular and ferial occasions Thelow-pitchtd roof was placed 14-17-70, and the massivebuttresses were added 1480 by Pintelli, to preventthe threatened fall of this valuable examide of eaily ^^art. lH. 613. Much uncertainty exists in the early dates pig 2G9. house at to the broUtto at Monza, 1152-92; the broletto at Brescia, the end of the 12th century; the church to San Francesco, 1225, at Ccni(or C(ineo); the fair example of pointed art, San Francesco at Terni, begun 1218, butnot completed until 1265: and the yellow brick church of San Antonio at Padua,1231, with its attempts at domes by N. Pisano. But in the middle of the IStti cen-tury were commenced, by himself or by his school, the brick cluirclus of Santi Giovanni ePaolo, of the Madonna del Orto, and of Sta. INIaria Glo-riosa de Frari (the finest of its class) at Venice. Thechurches of Sta. Caterina, finished 1272, by G. Agnelli;and of San Francesco at Pisa; the imposing specimen ofItalian Gothic furnislud by the cathedral at Arezzo, con-tained in the design, 1256, of
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