Gruner, Ludwig [Editor]; Lose, Friedrich [Editor]; Ottolini, Vittore [Editor]: The terra-cotta architecture of North Italy: (XIIth - XVth centuries) ; pourtrayed as examples for imitation in other countries (London, 1867)

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"The Church and Campanile [Plates 5 & 6.

liquid upon the various strata of bricks, forming itself so slight a stratum that
the seam between the bricks is now barely discernible.

These bricks, as has been noticed by the brothers Sacchi,1 were of varying
torm and structure, according to the different parts of the edifice in which
they were placed. In rectilineal parts the dimensions of each brick were about
one foot in length, three inches in depth, and six in breadth. When circular
walls were in question, each brick presented a proportional part of an arch,

San Gottardo. Arcade on Fourth Story of San Gottardo.

Pillars resting on projecting Brackets.

more or less curved according to the expansion of the wall's circle. If those
long string-courses, which from base to roof decorated the outside of the apses,
were composed of bricks or of sandstone, these were then shaped to three-
quarters of a circle. As to the order of their position in walls, the usual
method was adhered to, of placing the centre of one brick above the junction
of the two immediately below it.

1 Antichita romantiche d'Italia. Milano, 1828.