. Brick and marble in the middle ages: notes of tours in the north of Italy . rtyard, whose treatment, of akind not uncommon in ancient Italian architecture, is verybeautiful, though I fear very weak and unstable, if I mayjudge by the number of the iron bars by which it is heldtogether. There are many windows here of very good detail,and an arcaded cornice all round the courtyard, and closeby and also facing the Piazza dei Signori there is anotherfine lofty battlemented tower. J In a street close to the monuments of the Scaligers, whose ?name I have forgotten, but in a line with the ViccoloCav
. Brick and marble in the middle ages: notes of tours in the north of Italy . rtyard, whose treatment, of akind not uncommon in ancient Italian architecture, is verybeautiful, though I fear very weak and unstable, if I mayjudge by the number of the iron bars by which it is heldtogether. There are many windows here of very good detail,and an arcaded cornice all round the courtyard, and closeby and also facing the Piazza dei Signori there is anotherfine lofty battlemented tower. J In a street close to the monuments of the Scaligers, whose ?name I have forgotten, but in a line with the ViccoloCavaletto, I found a most valuable example of domestic workin a very fairly perfect state. As far as I could make it out,it consisted originally of three sides of a quadrangle, thefourth side towards the street being enclosed by a wall andarched gateway. The buildings all had arcades on theground-level, forming a kind of cloister, and the staircase tothe iirst floor was external, and built against the wall on theroad side. A great many alterations have been made in the SiWl. ClIAI-. VI.] 1)()MKSriC AlUJlirrECTURE. 105 house at vurious times, but iii the sketch which I give IhiiA^e shewn so much only of it as appeared to belong to theoriginal foundation. In its construction pointed and roundarches liave been used quite indiscriminately, and in some ofthe arches the depth of the voussoirs increases towards the;centre of the arch. Tliis is a rather favourite Italiandevice, and I was always as much pleased as at the first
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