[87] There is a very curious example of Italian tracery in the church of San Giacomo, in Bologna. This is a two-light window, composed of a series of slabs of stones, pierced with geometrical figures and supported by shafts. It has, beginning at the sill and reckoning upwards--1, two lights divided by a shaft monial; 2, a slab pierced with two trefoiled heads to the lights; 3, a large transome panel of stone pierced with a quatrefoil and two trefoils; 4, same as 1st; 5, same as 2nd; 6, the arch, whose tympanum is filled in with another pierced slab of stone. It will be seen that the construction of such a window as this is altogether unlike that of any English window. [88] See plate 40, p. 256. [89] The windows in the Castle of S. Angelo, between Lodi and Pavia, are the only examples I met with of the use of brick for monials. In Northern Germany, on the contrary, where the shaft was almost unknown, brick monials are universal, and generally unsatisfactory in their effect. [90] See preceding page. [91] See pp. 64, 65. [92] See p. 335. [93] See plate 18, p. 122. [94] See plate 15, p. 111. [95] See plate 9, p. 72. [96] See plate 17, p. 121. [97] See Plate 24, p. 180. [98] See Plate 18, p. 122. [99] It would be difficult to give stronger evidence of the intrinsic effect of a good coloured material than is afforded by the fact that designs so really ignorant in their architectural detail as, e.g., most of the buildings of the time of William III. and Queen Anne should nevertheless have a certain charm for us, solely derived from the beautiful colour of the bricks with which they are built. [100] See plate 63, p. 340. [101] See plate 1, frontispiece. [102] Some of the mediæval buildings in Greece have small patterns carved in low relief all round the walls in occasional courses, which are evidently intended to produce the kind of effect referred to above. [103] “Oh, venerable Raphael, make thou the gulf calm, we beseech thee!” This figure looks towards the sea and the port. [104] Mr. Ruskin founds an argument on the introduction of an H in this way in what he calls one of the Renaissance capitals of the Piazetta (the 33rd). He omits to notice its use in this undoubtedly early capital. [105] Unintelligible; but explained by Zanotto to be: “Mosè che die’ legge al suo popolo Israelita.” [106] Zanotto reads this: “Scipione a castita che rende la figlia al padre.” * * * * * Typographical errors corrected by the etext transcriber: repnted=> reputed {pg 38} cöeval=> coëval {pg 114} just at it was=> just as it was {pg 169 fn. 36} Christendon=> Christendom {pg 189} PALACE OF THE JURISTCONSULTS=> PALACE OF THE JURISCONSULTS {Illustration 45} duty, bound=> duty-bound {pg 274} End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Brick and Marble in the Middle Ages, by George Edmund Street