. Brick and marble in the middle ages: notes of tours in the north of Italy . lled in with plate tracery in stone, and forming the clerestory. The arrangement of theplan is in several respects un-like that of northern Clothicbuildings, and as most com-plete Gothic churches in Italyare very much of the sametype, it is as well here to point out the peculiarity. The most marked featuresare first the shortness of the choir, and next, the fact thatwhereas in northern Europe it is usually the aisle vault-ing bay which is square, whilst the nave bay is oblong fromnorth to south, here the nave groinin
. Brick and marble in the middle ages: notes of tours in the north of Italy . lled in with plate tracery in stone, and forming the clerestory. The arrangement of theplan is in several respects un-like that of northern Clothicbuildings, and as most com-plete Gothic churches in Italyare very much of the sametype, it is as well here to point out the peculiarity. The most marked featuresare first the shortness of the choir, and next, the fact thatwhereas in northern Europe it is usually the aisle vault-ing bay which is square, whilst the nave bay is oblong fromnorth to south, here the nave groining bay is square, andthe bays of the aisle oblong in the direction of east and difference of efiect is great, simple as the statementseems. In these Italian churches there is much greaterspace between the columns of the nave arcades, the groiningis consequently divided into much larger bays, and the wholeinterior has a largeness of treatment which is not commonin the North. On the other hand there is much less ofthe complexity and intricacy which are so charming in. STA. ANASTASIA—VEUOXA. oO VERONA. [Chai-. VJ. our interiors, and you see at a glance tlie whole of thechurch. - In Sta. Anastasia the apses on each side of the choir havean even number of sides, as has also the sacristy, which is aroom on a magnificent scale, to the north of the is a peculiar feature, producing as it does an angle inthe centre of the apse, which we shall see again at Venice andVicenza, and which is seldom seen out of Italy.^ The whole is so simple in design and construction thatit depends for its rich effect on the painting which coversalmost every part of it, and which harmonizes well with thearchitectural lines. The decorations appear to have beendone, or at any rate commenced, within a short period ofthe completion of the church, and are therefore very ground of the painting is white, many of the patternsof borders being very elaborate compositions of flowers an
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