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Brick and Marble in the Middle Ages has the subtitle Notes of Tours in the North of Italy. The opening chapter says an architectural tour in Italy seems to afford about as much prospect of pleasure and information combined as any which it is possible for an English student to take. The list of illustrations names, among others, the Piazza dei Mercanti, Milan and the Certosa of Chiaravalle.
The text says the range of great capitals to the columns of the lower arcade is of so much importance, and adds that they are so large, so close to the eye, so interesting in their story. The writer trusts that the ignorant prejudice which made many good people regard stone as a sort of sacred material, and red brick as one fit only for the commonest and meanest purposes, is fast wearing out.
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- George Edmund Street
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