. Brick and marble in the middle ages: notes of tours in the north of Italy . Vincent Brooks .DavS-Son,LitJi sa;^ia Afjastasia. yei<}ja. CiiAi. VI.] MONUMENTS. 89 even serves to atoue lor its deticienoies, as, e. g., in the broadpainted horizontal borders, which take the phice, verysuccessfully, of brick or stone string-courses, which in theconstruction are entirely omitted. It surprised me, I confess, very much, to find a churchpainted throughout without any use of gold, and yet withgood result; so it is, however ; the effect is most solemnand religious, and there is a very ric
. Brick and marble in the middle ages: notes of tours in the north of Italy . Vincent Brooks .DavS-Son,LitJi sa;^ia Afjastasia. yei<}ja. CiiAi. VI.] MONUMENTS. 89 even serves to atoue lor its deticienoies, as, e. g., in the broadpainted horizontal borders, which take the phice, verysuccessfully, of brick or stone string-courses, which in theconstruction are entirely omitted. It surprised me, I confess, very much, to find a churchpainted throughout without any use of gold, and yet withgood result; so it is, however ; the effect is most solemnand religious, and there is a very rich effect of colour; thefact is, that the white ground answers the same purpose ina degree, though of course not to the full extent, that goldwould. But if the walls are beautiful in their colour, not less sois the pavement, which, from one end of the church to theother, remains to this day to all appearance just as it wason the day that the church was finished. The nave andtransepts are all in one pattern; the spaces between thecolumns in a variety of beautiful des
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