. Brick and marble in the middle ages: notes of tours in the north of Italy . \V 1N1 )0 W—V E KOK Chap. XIV.] COLOUR IN CONSTRUCJIOX. 397 the forms of component parts of tracery, tliey produced whatare even more distasteful than any otlier kind of window; inpart because they consist of anendless repetition of small reticu-lations, and in part because theylead naturally to the constant re-production of the same windowfor economys sake. There can be no doubt thatthe best windows for brickchurches are either those beauti-ful Italian developments of plate- BltlCK WINDOW, SAKT ANDKKA—WAKTUA. tr
. Brick and marble in the middle ages: notes of tours in the north of Italy . \V 1N1 )0 W—V E KOK Chap. XIV.] COLOUR IN CONSTRUCJIOX. 397 the forms of component parts of tracery, tliey produced whatare even more distasteful than any otlier kind of window; inpart because they consist of anendless repetition of small reticu-lations, and in part because theylead naturally to the constant re-production of the same windowfor economys sake. There can be no doubt thatthe best windows for brickchurches are either those beauti-ful Italian developments of plate- BltlCK WINDOW, SAKT ANDKKA—WAKTUA. tracery in which all the bricks are carefully cut and rubbed for their proper place, or thosein which, within an inclosing arch of line upon line ofbrickwork, a small portion of stone is used for the this last has the advantage of giving much more oppor-tunity for variety of form and beauty of effect than anybrick traceries can ever give. There is one point in which a curious practical differenceexists between our old work and most old Italian. Here itwas not the custom to have keys
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