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Well, perhaps. Brick was also used extensively in marshy and other low-lying areas throughout the Po basin. After reading in Hills' book (cited in my previous post) about the fictive brickwork in the Frari and in SS. Giovanni e Paolo I had a look at some online views of the latter church, e.g. at right here:
http://tinyurl.com/k695ugo
and came to the provisional conclusion that from a distance a useful guide for spotting such work would be the relative regularity of the rectangles.
The pilaster at right here is a possible instance from Milan's basilica di Sant'Eustorgio, also a mendicant church (it's the city's chief Dominican church, much re-worked in the later Middle Ages):
http://tinyurl.com/ltnvyar
This looks modern but I wonder whether it overlies or replaces an earlier treatment of the same sort.
Best,
John Dillon
On 04/10/15, Sarah Wilkins wrote:
> Venice, with its more extensive use of brick as building material due to material considerations, might be an exceptional case?
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> I believe that Santo Stefano has fictive brick diaper pattern designs in its upper levels as well.
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> On Fri, Apr 10, 2015 at 11:14 AM, Laura Jacobus <[log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask])" target="1">[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> > medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture Jim, you've hit the nail on the head with your query, as I'm trying to decide whether the example I've come across was a functional solution to a problem (ie. a temporary finish), a purely decorative finish, or one which has any deeper significance. From the Medart-L list I got the idea of checking out SS Giovanni e Paolo and the Frari in Venice, and they both have fictive brickwork as their default wall-surfaces. Embarrassingly, I hadn't spotted this, despite being in one of them a few weeks ago. That suggests that it was an acceptable decorative surface, though arguably as these were Dominican and Franciscan houses it might also have been the 'poor' option as opposed to painted stone.
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> > Dr. Laura JacobusSenior Lecturer in History of Art
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