. Brick and marble in the middle ages: notes of tours in the north of Italy . mall de-tached shafts carrying the cornices and strings which dividethe elevation. Internally the scheme is very, eight-sided interior is subdivided, so that sixteen shal-low apses are set aroundthe inside face of the are separated by co-lumns, and above them oneach side are two stages inheight, each subdivided intothree divisions, which areagain subdivided by smallercolumns. A great vault orcupola covers the whole, andfrom its height gives an airof solemnity to the seems never t
. Brick and marble in the middle ages: notes of tours in the north of Italy . mall de-tached shafts carrying the cornices and strings which dividethe elevation. Internally the scheme is very, eight-sided interior is subdivided, so that sixteen shal-low apses are set aroundthe inside face of the are separated by co-lumns, and above them oneach side are two stages inheight, each subdivided intothree divisions, which areagain subdivided by smallercolumns. A great vault orcupola covers the whole, andfrom its height gives an airof solemnity to the seems never to have beentreated as a real dome, beingcovered with a flat roof, resting on tlie external walls, section of baptistery. which are carried up far above the vault. The paintingswith which the walls are covered are arranged without anyorder or general scheme of design. They seem to have beengiven by various donors, and each gave what best pleased hisfancy; but owing to the early date of most of the work, thereis iu parts -especially in the vault -a fine effect of colour. X 2. 308 PIACP]NZA. [Chap. XT. This baptistery is said to have been commenced by thearchitect Benedetto di Antelamo in 1196/ who is alsocredited with many other works here, and specially withmuch of the early sculpture in the Duomo and baptistery ;it was not completed until 1260. There are three great doors to the baptistery. On thenorthern is sculptured the Tree of Life, and over this twelveprophets carrying medallions with half figures of the are subjects from the lives of Our Lord and S. JohnBaptist. The western door has a sculpture of the LastJudgment, and the southern a not very intelligible, thoughno doubt symbolical, figure of a man seated in a tree andgathering honey. Inside there are various sculptures, and ;among them a series of illustrations of the labours of the ^months. My day in Parma was pleasantly concluded with a visitto the Gallery, and then, finding no more mediaeval remain
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