. Brick and marble in the middle ages: notes of tours in the north of Italy . KOSR WINDOW—CUEMONA CATHEDRAL. finished in brick, and the detail generally is better and moredelicate in its character than that ©f the south transept. Inboth the bricks are all of a pale red colour, and no darkbricks are anywhere used. The baptistery—which, as has been said, stands south-west of the Duomo—is entered by a doorway with a project-ing porch, whose shafts rest on the backs of animals. It is Ilu; Iwo transepts arc so very similar, tiiat it seemed uuuecessary tocnRrave inv sketches of 45.—PALACE OP
. Brick and marble in the middle ages: notes of tours in the north of Italy . KOSR WINDOW—CUEMONA CATHEDRAL. finished in brick, and the detail generally is better and moredelicate in its character than that ©f the south transept. Inboth the bricks are all of a pale red colour, and no darkbricks are anywhere used. The baptistery—which, as has been said, stands south-west of the Duomo—is entered by a doorway with a project-ing porch, whose shafts rest on the backs of animals. It is Ilu; Iwo transepts arc so very similar, tiiat it seemed uuuecessary tocnRrave inv sketches of 45.—PALACE OP THF, JDRISTCONSDLTS, CREMONA. Chap. X.] PALACE OF JURISCONSULTS. 269 octagonal in its plan, built of brick \Yith the exception of theside in which the door is placed, this being of mar1)le, and isvery simple in all its detail. There are three altars in it,and an immense erection of masonry in the centre, which,though not open, is evidently a font, amply large for im-mersion. Each side has three recessed arches on marblecolumns, above which the whole is of red brick with stonestring-courses between the stages. These have corbel-tablesunder them, which are the only enrichments in the the brickwork is left to view inside, and the light isadmitted by a pierced arcade very high up in the whole is domed over with an octagonal vault of brick,in the centre of which is a small lantern, and the effect isexceedingly fine and solemn, and enhanced very much bythe grave sombre colour of the bricks. Close to the baptistery is a building, called in MurraysHandbo
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