. Brick and marble in the middle ages: notes of tours in the north of Italy . URICK AUCHrVOLT, VESCOVATO—MANTUA. between a succession of rims of brickwork on the same face, alternated very picturesquelywith squares of stone, andsometimes, as in some beautifularcading outside San FermoMaggiore ;it Verona,^ to defineand enliven the lines of stone-work ; for in this case, thoughthe work is all in stone and nobrick was really required, sogreat was the appreciation ofcolour, that it was gladly andmost successfully the early cloister of SanZenone we see it again,?^ as also in all the v
. Brick and marble in the middle ages: notes of tours in the north of Italy . URICK AUCHrVOLT, VESCOVATO—MANTUA. between a succession of rims of brickwork on the same face, alternated very picturesquelywith squares of stone, andsometimes, as in some beautifularcading outside San FermoMaggiore ;it Verona,^ to defineand enliven the lines of stone-work ; for in this case, thoughthe work is all in stone and nobrick was really required, sogreat was the appreciation ofcolour, that it was gladly andmost successfully the early cloister of SanZenone we see it again,?^ as also in all the very beautifularches which still remain in the Broletto of Brescia.^ Sec plate 18, p, 122. = See plate 15, p. 111. ^ Sec plate 0, p. ARCII-MOULB—CKEMONA. Chap. XIV.] ITALIAN BRICKWORK. 395 But beside this there was another way in which Italianarchitects produced a very beautiful effect : this was in thealternation of stone and brick. We have one of the firstexamples of this in the magnificent walls of San Zenone atVerona, in which a deep red brick is used in courses alter-nating with a very warm-coloured stone. The brick is usedvery irregularly : beginning at the base of the walls overthe cloisters, we have alternately with courses of stone, firsta band of three courses of brick, after this one course ofbrick, four courses, five courses, two courses, one course, andthen the cornice, which is mainly of stone, but relieved bytwo courses of narrow bricks ; in spite of the variation in theheight of the brick courses, those of stone in this case arenearly uniform in depth. In the west front of San FermoMaggiore ^ we have brick and stone used in alternate andregular all the way up; in this case the brick isuse
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