. Brick and marble in the middle ages: notes of tours in the north of Italy . wixiMjw-jAMu—1alacl; of jurisconsults, first saw it into a school for a not very polite set of childrenand teachers, who all apparently felt the most lively interest 270 CREMONA. [Chap. X. in my architectural pursuits. It was originally openbelow, but the arches on which it stood are now filled upper stage is very simple and beautiful, and the wholeis finished at the top with a cornice and parapet, withbattlements pointed at the top like those in the Torrazzo,and not forked as we have been lately so
. Brick and marble in the middle ages: notes of tours in the north of Italy . wixiMjw-jAMu—1alacl; of jurisconsults, first saw it into a school for a not very polite set of childrenand teachers, who all apparently felt the most lively interest 270 CREMONA. [Chap. X. in my architectural pursuits. It was originally openbelow, but the arches on which it stood are now filled upper stage is very simple and beautiful, and the wholeis finished at the top with a cornice and parapet, withbattlements pointed at the top like those in the Torrazzo,and not forked as we have been lately so accustomed to seethem. At one end of this parapet a chimney rises above. CaiMNEi AND BATTLEMEKT—CREMOKA. the battlement, which is, so far as I have seen, a uniqueexample of the ancient Italian contrivance for this verynecessary apjiendage.^ It is exceedingly good in its detail,and coeval with the rest of the work. There is a simplicityand truthfulness of construction about this little building Ilic oliimneys no cominoii in Venice are ancient, l)ut yet lianllyredeeiued from uglinci-s. They arc cylindrical, with heads slojiing out in astrange fashion, and in the form of inverted truncated cones. See ji. 224. Chap. X.] CHURCHES. 271 \vliich make it esjjecially pleasing after tlic unreal treatmentof the great transept-fronts of the Dnomo.^ By its sidestands the Palazzo Publico, out of one side of which risesone of those singular and very tall brick towers, withoutany openings whatever in its walls, which give such peculiarcharacter to some Italian cities, and of which we afterwardssaw Kood store at Pavia. The whole of the buildinc: shewseither traces of arca
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