. The Archaeological journal. which the volume contains, and inthe intelligent and instructive comments and criticisms which accompanythem, given us the means of making ourselves acquainted with many little-known, but very interesting buildings, and a great variety of beautifuldetail. We have availed ourselves of the liberality of the publisher to placebefore our readers a few of the illustrations, and we have endeavoured soto select them as to give some idea of the variety and novelty of matterwhich the reader will find in the volume itself. The west front of the Church of St. Fermo Maggioro
. The Archaeological journal. which the volume contains, and inthe intelligent and instructive comments and criticisms which accompanythem, given us the means of making ourselves acquainted with many little-known, but very interesting buildings, and a great variety of beautifuldetail. We have availed ourselves of the liberality of the publisher to placebefore our readers a few of the illustrations, and we have endeavoured soto select them as to give some idea of the variety and novelty of matterwhich the reader will find in the volume itself. The west front of the Church of St. Fermo Maggioro at Verona (see cut,Xo. I), which, according to Professor Willis, probably dates from about1 o 1.!, is a very characteristic specimen of its period and country, parti-cularly as regards the alternate hands of red brick and warm-colouredstone, and the hoods over the tombs affixed to it ; such, also, is the north 1 In the Introduction to the Remarks on the Architecture of the Middle Ages,especially of Italy, 1855. VOL. XII. u R. II. NOKTli Til Mi>. rilE CATIIKDII \ I. A I Mi.\.\ NOTICES OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL PUBLICATIONS. 303 porch, on which Mr. Street bestows the qualified praise that it is veryfine of its kind. The disproportion between the slendcrness of the shaftsand the mass they support, and the faulty construction which requires theaid of connecting bars of iron, are no doubt the defects which prevent sogreat an admirer of the Italian fashion of constantly using bearing-shaftsfrom bestowing warmer commendation upon this, the ever-recurring formof porch in Italian churches. In this instance it will be seen, that although brick is pretty largelyused, all the ornamental detail is executed in stone or marble. In the northtransept of the Cathedral of Cremona (see cut, No. II), we have an examplein which nothing but brick is used, either for walling or for decoration,excepting in the doorway and its porch. Mr. Street comments upon thisand the south transept as follows : The re
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