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[M.16L] [M.16] Monza. Duomo. 16
equally deep, but much more simple: one of their traceries with
relative depth of moulding outside at p 40 l N fig 1 The penetrations
are about the right size, and the tracery should be so adjusted
as to be of equal breadth: the design is not a bad one: remarkable
chiefly for the persistence of the round arch, and for the throwing
up of the lateral foils of the 4 foil a. in order to make its
upper and under foils equal: the effect of the tracery is however
a good deal spoiled by its bad & singular rib section b; The
cusps separate clumsily by the widening of the cavetto and
are of the same section, as seen in dotted line; it affects also
the lateral shaft c, though the central ones are cylindrical.
another curious point about these windows is that the
stripes of serpentine with which the whole façade is barred
horizontally slope down to the outside of its moulding in voussoirs
fig 2 p 41 l.
The cornice running up each side of the broad gable pediment is
very beautiful, though quaint, and the eye does not enough
feel the bracket support of its columns, p 40, and profile
40 l fig 2 N. The quatrefoil squares with rhomboid between
are not adjusted to the niches below; but come in all manner
of places; rather more than two squares to each nich: their
4 foil remarkable for its narrow & broad leaves, p 40 l fig 3
Shadows taken at one in the afternoon to-day.
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[Version 0.05: May 2008]