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CHUKCH AT ASSISI.
611
Bk. II. Cn. VI.
addition, and a characteristic specimen of the style during the 14th
century. This church is also one of the earliest examples in which
those elegant terra-cotta cornices of small intersecting arches seem to
have been brought to perfection.
The most remarkable church of this age is tliat of St. Francis at
Assisi, commenced in 1228, and finished, in all essentials at least, in
1253. It is said to have been built by a Gei’man named Jacob, or
Jacopo. Certainly no French or English architect would have designed
a double church of this class, though, on the other hancl, no Italian
could have clrawn details so purely Northern as those of the upper
church. In the lower church there are hardly any mouldings to mark
the style, but its character is certainly rather German than Italian.
2 R 2
611
Bk. II. Cn. VI.
addition, and a characteristic specimen of the style during the 14th
century. This church is also one of the earliest examples in which
those elegant terra-cotta cornices of small intersecting arches seem to
have been brought to perfection.
The most remarkable church of this age is tliat of St. Francis at
Assisi, commenced in 1228, and finished, in all essentials at least, in
1253. It is said to have been built by a Gei’man named Jacob, or
Jacopo. Certainly no French or English architect would have designed
a double church of this class, though, on the other hancl, no Italian
could have clrawn details so purely Northern as those of the upper
church. In the lower church there are hardly any mouldings to mark
the style, but its character is certainly rather German than Italian.
2 R 2