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[M.103L] [M.103] Ducal palace. Windows to North. Differences of Style 103
[diagram]
Carta: which has - most fortunately its two spiral
flanking shafts left - of the same section as all the rest
and with the truncated fillings, and of section opposite
and bearing leaf capitals; bold cut - of the time
of the windows - c - d - e &c and with lions heads like
theirs - or rather like the intermediate ones of window
k, and here getting up to the tracery mark, I saw - the
abacus of the capital on which it fell being entirely
left, that the rough chiselled mark which I had a doubt
about in k, l, & m is indeed merely the roughness
allowed to be left as holding tracery cement better.
- it is not any cutting away: But now note that
in k-l m-n-o: there is this chiselled tracery mark
of the tracery - with no bolt holes: but in c-d-f
g.h, smooth soffit, with a stain of tracery only, and
bolt holes: and observe - at k the intermediate
lions heads begin - so that I suspect here I have
another date - closely connected with the rough chiselling
which marks the last and most degraded work
of all - and yet always retaining the spiral shaft
easily imitated: (*) Vide note at p 88.
Here then I have Four distinct periods - the first
of a and b, 2nd of c to h, 3rd of k to o, 4th of
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[Version 0.05: May 2008]