. Brick and marble in the middle ages: notes of tours in the north of Italy . ch, and forthwith, in place of along and not very intelligible direction, in which we are sureentirely to confuse our right hand with our left, the j^ersonwe ask turns round with us, walks by our side, shews us ourobject, and, politely taking off his hat and bowing, takes leaveof us. It was by such aid as this that we found the churchof the Carmine, which is another very late Grothic west front is most fantastic and unpleasing, and thepinnacles composed of round bricks, disposed alternately overeach other,
. Brick and marble in the middle ages: notes of tours in the north of Italy . ch, and forthwith, in place of along and not very intelligible direction, in which we are sureentirely to confuse our right hand with our left, the j^ersonwe ask turns round with us, walks by our side, shews us ourobject, and, politely taking off his hat and bowing, takes leaveof us. It was by such aid as this that we found the churchof the Carmine, which is another very late Grothic west front is most fantastic and unpleasing, and thepinnacles composed of round bricks, disposed alternately overeach other, and common in most Italian Itrick buildings, arevery ugly ; there is, however, a good simple cloister attachedto the church on the north; it is of the same design asalmost all in this part of the world, having simple roundshafts with carved caps and circular arches. An inner 74 BRESCIA. [Chap. Y. cloister which I i-emember of okl as occupied by the everpresent Austrian sokliers, is now (1872) open to all the world,and neither cared for nor nsed. Here the south side of the. CLOISTER OF THE CAHMINE COKVKNT—BRKSCIA. cloister is of two stories in height, the lower similar to theone just mentioned, the upper having two arches to one archof that ))elow, and the arches picturesquely shaped, beingcinquefoils, willi the central division of ogro form, ;ind with Chap. V.] STA. AFRA. 75 moulded terminations to the cusps. There is a fair cam-panile here, with brick traceries and strings, but with amodern belfry-stage. A little bit of cloister, or gallery, on the north side of , has arcading of similar character in its upper gallery,but the arches are trefoiled. In the Contrada della Pace there remains a very bold frag-ment of a castle tower. It is built of very roughly-jointedstone, and is perfectly plain till near the top, where it hasa bold machicolation with tall square angle-turrets, the wholeInattlemented wath a forked battlement. Out of the centreof the tower a tall thin to
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