. Brick and marble in the middle ages: notes of tours in the north of Italy . Chap. V.] COCCAGLIO. 65 to obtain some sketches. They were entirely executedin brick and terra-cotta, except, of course, the capitalsand shafts of the windows, and appeared to be of the four-teenth century. The upper portion of the house of which I give a sketchremains very fairly perfect, though its lower story has beenentirely modernized. It will be seen that it is very uniformin its design, the large and small windows alternating. DETAIL OK WIM>OWS AND CORBKLLING FOR (HIMNKVS—COCCAGLIO. regularly ; and that scn
. Brick and marble in the middle ages: notes of tours in the north of Italy . Chap. V.] COCCAGLIO. 65 to obtain some sketches. They were entirely executedin brick and terra-cotta, except, of course, the capitalsand shafts of the windows, and appeared to be of the four-teenth century. The upper portion of the house of which I give a sketchremains very fairly perfect, though its lower story has beenentirely modernized. It will be seen that it is very uniformin its design, the large and small windows alternating. DETAIL OK WIM>OWS AND CORBKLLING FOR (HIMNKVS—COCCAGLIO. regularly ; and that scnii-circular arches arc used in thewindows in connection with ogee trefoils. This is one ofthe apparent inconsistencies which occur in almost all ItalianGothic work ; and might seem to give us ancient authorityfor any amount of licence in our combination of the elementsof what we ordinarily consider to be thoroughly differentstyles. The windows are marked l)y the same elaljoraliou 66 COCCAGLIO. [Chap. V. of their sills which we noticed in the Broletto at Bergamo,and the detail of these, as also of the corbelling out from thewall of several chimney-hreasts, is exceedingly good. In a hack street in the village I found a house thebalconies around which were corbelled forward on finelymoulded beams, which, judging by the moulding, couldhardly be of later date than the commencement of thefourteenth century.
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