. Brick and marble in the middle ages: notes of tours in the north of Italy . BRICK WINDOW —CUKMONA CATHIiDBAL. 268 CREMONA. [Chap. X. which runs up the gables under the eaves-cornice—so heavyand so rude-looking, that, taken by itself, it would probablybe put down as being of much earlier date than it really facade finishes with three heavy pinnacles arcaded allround, and finished with conical caps. To the north transept very nearly the same descriptionwould apjily, save that the doorway is much finer, andentirely of marble.^ It is part of the original Lombardchurch, and has no doubt be
. Brick and marble in the middle ages: notes of tours in the north of Italy . BRICK WINDOW —CUKMONA CATHIiDBAL. 268 CREMONA. [Chap. X. which runs up the gables under the eaves-cornice—so heavyand so rude-looking, that, taken by itself, it would probablybe put down as being of much earlier date than it really facade finishes with three heavy pinnacles arcaded allround, and finished with conical caps. To the north transept very nearly the same descriptionwould apjily, save that the doorway is much finer, andentirely of marble.^ It is part of the original Lombardchurch, and has no doubt been taken down and rebuilt wherewe now see it. The tracery of the rose windows is all. 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 botli.
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