. Brick and marble in the middle ages: notes of tours in the north of Italy . all placed in the navewest of the transept, as in Westminster Abbey. They areof very rich Kenaissance character, but with some lateGothic features. In the north transept is some elaborateGothic panelling—very German in character—which looksas if it had come from the back of the old choir , too, is a crucifix, probably the original rood. Somefragments of stained glass are still visible; they are coarseand rude in detail, but extremely fine in colour ; and onemust picture the church full of rich glass in ord
. Brick and marble in the middle ages: notes of tours in the north of Italy . all placed in the navewest of the transept, as in Westminster Abbey. They areof very rich Kenaissance character, but with some lateGothic features. In the north transept is some elaborateGothic panelling—very German in character—which looksas if it had come from the back of the old choir , too, is a crucifix, probably the original rood. Somefragments of stained glass are still visible; they are coarseand rude in detail, but extremely fine in colour ; and onemust picture the church full of rich glass in order to dojustice to the scheme of the mediaeval architect. To the south of the nave are large uninteresting cloisters,and it is only at the east end that the exterior at all repaysthe ecclesiologist for the f)ains he must take to get all roundit. The view which I give will best illustrate its generalcharacter. The windows are all transomed, the tracery andportions of the arches being executed in stone, the rest ofthe wall being entirely of brick or terra-cotta with some.
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