Brick and Marble in the Middle Ages
Notes of a Tour in the North of Italy

Published in 1855, this is an illustrated collection of observations on architecture - mostly Gothic - made in continental Europe.

George Edmund Street (Author)

9781108051927, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 16 August 2012

366 pages, 69 b/w illus. 5 colour illus.
21.6 x 14 x 2.1 cm, 0.47 kg

An architect and architectural theorist, George Edmund Street (1824–81) was one of the key proponents of the 'High Victorian' Gothic style in nineteenth-century Britain. He is best known as the mind behind London's Royal Courts of Justice. Elected an associate of the Royal Academy in 1866, Street became its professor of architecture in 1880. In 1874 he received the gold medal of the Royal Institute of British Architects after John Ruskin declined it, and he served as the Institute's president in 1881. Street's Gothic architecture was influenced by continental examples: this book, first published in 1855, serves as an important source for interpreting his output. It is copiously illustrated, arranged as a travelogue of mostly pointed-arch architecture seen in Italy, and covers exterior and interior elevations, sculptural details, metalwork and furniture.

1. South-Eastern Railway Company's handbills
2. Churches of Bâle
3. Wallenstadt
4. Chiavenna
5. Pallazzolo
6. Verona: Campanile of the Palazzo dei Signori
7. Neighbourhood of Verona
8. Padua and Venice railway
9. Venice to Verona
10. Milan: the cathedral
11. Departure from Como
12. Contrast of English and Italian mediaeval architecture.

Subject Areas: Architecture [AM]