. Brick and marble in the middle ages: notes of tours in the north of Italy . .Wina^ws ai Vet^na. S. Cornice ^. Ambr«-gt, Chap. VI.] DOMESTIC WINDOWS. 1-23 there were which I did not succeed in reacliing,^ and there isone dedicated in honour of S. Thomas of Canterbury, whichis not, however, otherwise of any interest; it has a verykite Gothic west front, of poor character. It is impossible to walk about Yerona without meetingat every turn with windows whose design is similar tothose so often seen in Venice, but the execution and arrange-ment are generally so inferior here to what they ar
. Brick and marble in the middle ages: notes of tours in the north of Italy . .Wina^ws ai Vet^na. S. Cornice ^. Ambr«-gt, Chap. VI.] DOMESTIC WINDOWS. 1-23 there were which I did not succeed in reacliing,^ and there isone dedicated in honour of S. Thomas of Canterbury, whichis not, however, otherwise of any interest; it has a verykite Gothic west front, of poor character. It is impossible to walk about Yerona without meetingat every turn with windows whose design is similar tothose so often seen in Venice, but the execution and arrange-ment are generally so inferior here to what they arethere, that I shall defer sayingmuch about them until I amdescri])ing the palaces and an-cient buildings of Venice. Theyare almost always finished withogeed trefoils at the top, and arearranged singly, or in couples ormore together, and one above theother, the same in each story ofthe hout^e; their mouldings arethin and reedy, and the carvingof ti eir finials, when they haveany, is very poor. Examples ofthese windows will be seen bymost travellers in the rooms of. DOM l-:bTIC « IN UO\\ — V E H OK A. the Albergo delle Due Torre. The views from the bridges across the Adige are verystriking. The main part of the city is on the right bank,and the river describes nearly a semi-circle round it. Theopposite bank is only partially built over, and has a largishsuburb, upon rather raj^idly rising ground ; be^^ond this thewalls of the city are seen with occasional towers, and marked Tlie most important of tliese is the interesting ehurcli of Sun Stefano intlie suburb on the opposite side of the Adige. It hns been much modernized,but has still, I believe, an early crypt and an octagonal steeple over thecrossing, of the snme age as San Zenone. 124 VERONA. [Chap. VI. all the way by their serrated battlements climbing theirregular outline of the hills in the boldest fashion. Thencrossing over to the other side and turning round, you seethe thickly-built city full of towers and churches r
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