. Brick and marble in the middle ages: notes of tours in the north of Italy . 24 —STA, MARIA GLOEIOSA DEI FRAKI, VEMICB. Page 180. I ([TAP. VHI.] CHURCH OF SS. GIOVANNI E PAOLO. 181 red marble in the eaves-arcading; the bricks are not par-ticularly good, and the terra-cotta borders, cornices, andornaments are poor and meagre in their design. The mostobservable point about the detail is the great and ugly splayon the exterior of the windows, and the facts that the windowmouldings are returned round the sills and that all theapsidal terminations in the church finish with an angle inthe centre—a
. Brick and marble in the middle ages: notes of tours in the north of Italy . 24 —STA, MARIA GLOEIOSA DEI FRAKI, VEMICB. Page 180. I ([TAP. VHI.] CHURCH OF SS. GIOVANNI E PAOLO. 181 red marble in the eaves-arcading; the bricks are not par-ticularly good, and the terra-cotta borders, cornices, andornaments are poor and meagre in their design. The mostobservable point about the detail is the great and ugly splayon the exterior of the windows, and the facts that the windowmouldings are returned round the sills and that all theapsidal terminations in the church finish with an angle inthe centre—a peculiarity which is very seldom met with, butvery much to be commended as a variety. There is a degree of clumsiness about the way in whichthe arches of the windows are set upon the jambs which isvery characteristic of Italian Gothic; but this, and otherpoints open to criticism, do not prevent the east end of thischurch from being a very noble conception, broad and grand,unbroken with the lines of buttresses which generally toomuch confuse apsidal terminations, and ye
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