Gruner, Ludwig; Hittorff, Jacques Ignace [Editor]: Fresco decorations and stuccoes of churches & palaces, in Italy, during the fifteenth & sixteenth centuries with descriptions (London, 1844)

THE CERTOSA, NEAR PAVIA. 57
colouring and the harmony of the painting are in such perfect accordance.
The spaces which are not filled either with figures or arabesques are
painted in close imitation of costly marbles1.

PLATE V.
SOUTH FRONT OF THE VESTIBULE OF THE CERTOSA.
[e, f, OF THE PLAN.]
This side has been sadly defaced by later additions; the portion
marked A, alone remains visible of this front. A shed erected against
the vestibule covers it to more than half its height in one direction,
and in another a new building conceals a portion of its length. The
arrangement is the same as in Plate IV.
Above, the arabesques of the spandrils and the decorations of their
soffits are given on a larger scale. The letters B and C, corresponding
with the points, c, d, of the plan, are repeated from the foregoing Plate,
where we see them in connection with the rest. They are placed here to
bring the coloured details of both sides into the same Plate.

PLATE VI.
THE CEILING OF THE VESTIBULE, WITH SECTIONS AND A PLAN OF THE CHURCH.
In accordance with the character of the external decorations, we find
on the roof of the first division the same openings towards the sky, the
same rich arabesques in the triangular spaces, and those disks breaking
the smaller friezes, which form the frame-work of the ribs.2
1 For further information respecting the colours of the marbles, etc. etc., see additional Plate 4,
No. IV.
2 The variety of colour in the ground of these friezes is very peculiar, but it produces a good effect ;
and monotony would have been inevitable without such a contrivance.

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