. Brick and marble in the middle ages: notes of tours in the north of Italy . st ninety-nine out of every hundred cusped window-openings are designed without feeling, and quite unlike thebest old examples; and this, though apparently a point ofvery small importance, is really of great consequence to theperfection of any pointed work. The faulty portions of this campanile are the elaboratearcadings in brick beneaththe string-courses, and theawkward and abrupt mannerin which the octagonal stageand the round tile spire areset upon the square present appreciation ofthe building by the go
. Brick and marble in the middle ages: notes of tours in the north of Italy . st ninety-nine out of every hundred cusped window-openings are designed without feeling, and quite unlike thebest old examples; and this, though apparently a point ofvery small importance, is really of great consequence to theperfection of any pointed work. The faulty portions of this campanile are the elaboratearcadings in brick beneaththe string-courses, and theawkward and abrupt mannerin which the octagonal stageand the round tile spire areset upon the square present appreciation ofthe building by the goodpeople of Mantua is shewnby the opening jiierced inits lower stage, in front ofwhich the modestly with-drawn folds of a green cur- ,„^,,^ ^v,m, .kbuk., disclose the interior devoted to a barbers shop, and in which the patient, seatedin the middle of the shop, and looking into the Piazza,submits to the painful operation of shaving—a commonpicture in almost every street of an Italian town, but notpleasant when the place is a portion of a church. s 2. 260 MANTUA. [Chap. X. The guide-books sj^eak of tlie clmrch of Saiit Andrea as among the finest existing specimens of an interior in therevived Koman style. If it really is so, I advise allarchitects interested in the failure of the said- style toventure, notwithstanding the forbidding west front, intothe nave, when they will perhaps find comfort in seeing howmiserable a building one of the finest of its class maynevertheless be! The people at Mantua seemed to be excessively disturbedby my attempts at sketching, and at Sant Andrea they mobbedme so thoroughly that I was really beginning to think ofgiving up the attempt in despair, when a kindly-disposedhatmaker, seeing my distress, came down to the rescue, andgave me and my party seats in a balcony on the first floor ofhis house, in which, sitting at my ease above my persecutorsand listening to the good mans wife and daughters, I finishedmy sketch with great
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