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[M.15L] [M.15] Monza. Duomo. 15
with a square panneled surface ornamented with more dignity even
than with a diamond, and this idea of Monza is nothing else
than the rose of St Etienne Beauvais, with its diamond pannelling
set vertical; its bars, instead of a mere roll, turned into
a flat classical moulding, with rich flowerwork on the sides
and the roses of the fillings turned into hollow tracery:
Evidently this enrichment would be an improvement if the
traceries were fine; they are however impure, and many of
them ugly & like ventilators or iron work: the stars, many
Wheel windows of them, harsh and stiff. The wheel window itself has an
exquisitely deep and rich classical moulding substituted for the
crude Norman one: it is simply formed by sixteen regular
shafts & capitals bearing the tracery 1 p 41l N. Two other
smaller roses in squares occur, each on the flank of the great
one. Below, on each side of the panels there are two remarkable
windows: , one on each side, of a superb round arch, filled with
Traceries tracery, very elegant in the southern one, and surrounded by
a twisted column moulding only inferior to Florence in grace
and completion: it is Florence without its mosaics & founded
on a Romanesque idea instead of a Gothic one: The twisted
columns stand clear; and have been broken away in one place from the
top of the arch, which they encircle, and from its side; all
is of marble: the other windows are pointed, their mouldings
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[Version 0.05: May 2008]