15thc perception on swallowtail merlons?

[Mauro]

I've seen the You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. is included in the You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.. But I think the swallowtail merlons in the picture are not the medieval ones: according to wikipedia:

... il mastio, dentro la cui parete si possono ancora oggi notare tracce di merlatura ghibellina (... the keep, where it's possible to notice even today traces of ghibellin merlons embedded in the wall).

The keep itself was built (wikipedia says) in 1337.


I know of two other buildings in Brescia with swallowtails merlons.

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Nel Duecento viene integralmente ricostruita durante le operazioni di fortificazione della cittadella nuova promosse dai Visconti, assumendo l'aspetto attuale con un grande voltone di copertura al passaggio e la merlatura ghibellina a coronamento. (In the XIIIth century it was wholly rebuilt during the fortification works of the new citadel by the Visconti, achieving its current form with a vault covering the passage and the ghibellin merlons on top).

Nowadays the clefts in the merlons have been filled (I don't know when).


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One of the city landmarks. The merlons are however late, they were added between 1476 and 1481.