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[M.12L] [M.12] Milan. St Ambrogio. 12
It is curious that in St Ambrogio there seems to be absolute fear
of giving the piers the slightest overhanging charge of weight
: the arch mouldings are either equal to them, or shrink
[diagram] within them: The only thing approaching to an excess is the
This capital has therefore something section of the three arches which form the second story of
like work in bearing the angle the entrances: (there are five arches altogether, but two
of the subarch. almost concealed behind the aisles) Round the atrium
the pilasters of the main piers have capitals which bear
the cornice shaft: but the two entrance piers have capitals
only to their [diagrams]: their face pilasters run up unbroken to
Banded capitals the cornice which goes round the whole court: only when
substitute for they pass the other capitals, they each have a square medallion
containing two animals carved more flatly and simply than
usual, to prevent the disjunction of the pier ornament. and
yet without breaking on the simplicity of the pilaster. Above them
Piers the cornice of course intervening come the piers of the second
story. fig 1 p 33 N. The shaded section is the pier below
the capital: substituting the dotted line for the [diagram] we have
that above the capital, the outer line being the capital itself *
The faces ab cd are richly carved, and form the archivolt
as also a2 b2; a2a forms continued upwards, the cornice
shaft: The stone work of the curved voussoirs ab , cd is very
narrow in proportion to the width of the arch, and the brick work
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[Version 0.05: May 2008]