. Brick and marble in the middle ages: notes of tours in the north of Italy . is used, , the rosewindow has tracery of red marble enclosed within an orderof white marble; the doorway and sculpture are in whitemarble, once much enriched with colour, and the arcadedband all across the front is of red marble. Add to thisthat the stone used is all of an extremely warm yellowcolour, and an idea may be formed of the efibrt that was madehere in the principal front (as often in Italian churches)to shew that Gods house was the noblest that could bebuilt. The doorway well deserves a chapter to itsel
. Brick and marble in the middle ages: notes of tours in the north of Italy . is used, , the rosewindow has tracery of red marble enclosed within an orderof white marble; the doorway and sculpture are in whitemarble, once much enriched with colour, and the arcadedband all across the front is of red marble. Add to thisthat the stone used is all of an extremely warm yellowcolour, and an idea may be formed of the efibrt that was madehere in the principal front (as often in Italian churches)to shew that Gods house was the noblest that could bebuilt. The doorway well deserves a chapter to itself. Its lintelhas illustrations of the labours of the twelve months, itsjambs subjects on the right from the Old Testament, on theleft from the New. In front of this door there are detachedshafts standing on monsters and sujiporting a low inscription on the facade Salvet in eternum qui sculpsitista Gruglielmus, gives the name of the sculptor, the sameman probably who about the middle of the twelfth centurysculptured the western doorway of the cathedral at il^-^vTMnMiv^^u W-- li-l - ,-i :1 i^ ..s:.i^-;-fL mm f i:vih-Lnhi
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