Identifier: historyofarchit02cumm (find matches)
Title: A history of architecture in Italy from the time of Constantine to the dawn of the renaissance
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Cummings, Charles Amos, 1833-1905
Subjects: Architecture
Publisher: Boston, New York, Houghton Mifflin and company
Contributing Library: PIMS - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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Visconti. is more-significant of the gradual mitigation of the mediaeval barbar-ity and violence than this change. In the castle of the Visconti atPavia, for instance, built not much after the middle of the visconti,fourteenth century, — a great square of nearly four hun- ^^^^^dred and twenty feet on a side, surrounded by a broad moat, — theouter walls are pierced with two ranges of fine two-light windows,with traceried heads under a pointed bearing-arch. The towers havefour stages, with a similar window in each face. (Fig. 401.) Thecourt is admirable, an open pointed arcade on all four sides support-ing a story of fine windows varying in design on the various sides ofthe quadrangle, with three and four lights separated by columnar mul-lions, and enclosed by a circular bearing-arch with traceried circlesin the arch-head. The wall is finished with a decorated terra-cottacornice. The whole of the masonry, except the columns and the 1 Schulz, vol. i., p. 20. 246 ARCHITECTURE IN ITALY
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Malpaga. Fig-. 402. Malpaga. Castle of Colleoni. arches of the first story, is of brick. Only one side of the courtretains its original aspect. A great portion of this noble castle wasdestroyed by the French artillery during the siege of Pavia in 1547,and time and neglect have added to the decay.^ The castle of Malpaga, standing half way between Bergamo andTreviglio, is a striking instance of the change in mannersof which I have spoken. Its age and builder are unknown.But in 1450 it fell into the possession of the Venetian republic, andshortly after into that of the famous condottiere, Bartolommeo Col-leoni, who bought the castle in 1456 for a hundred gold ducats, andremodelled it for his own residence. In the rebuilding much of theoriginal military character of the building disappeared. The Vene-tian ambassador, Marino Sanudo, in a manuscript which has beeapreserved, described it while in Colleonis possession as a squaresurrounded by a moat, and entered by a drawbridge, — a fine pa

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