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[M.4L] [M.4] Milan . Duomo . 4
a [diagram]
b [diagram] Chamouni - Wednesday 17th October, 1849: I climbed yesterday afternoon
c [diagram] an hour up the Breven to my old friend the cleft-stone .
and above, nearly as high again : the sun and air both so
warm as to render the work oppressive . two main points
I noted on the opposite aiguilles . that the excessive sharp peak
of Charmoz is on this side quite broad at the base . nearly of the
form a. opp: showing how safely it may long stand, though
from the Montanvert it looks like a lower head: the other
that the deep gaps which seem from the valley to separate
the aiguilles are for the most part gaps of perspective: drawn
by the retiring lines of the advanced buttresses: and that
the separation between the masses is in reality very shallow
in proportion to their height, i.e. c. opposite instead of A b.
Milan, Friday 27th Oct. The cathedral is a mixture of
Flamboyant perpendicular with flamboyant: the latter being peculiarly
manner barbarous and angular, owing to its being engrafted, not on
Traceries a pure, but a very early penetrative Gothic . Thus the ruling
lines of the barbarous flamboyant rose, fig 1. p 29, as
given in plain bands at fig 2 (too few observe: the upper half
inch being true:) are evidently directly derived from old Byzantine
Bandwork, and as such on a small scale would be very
agreeable: on a large scale, forming as they do the meagre
traceries of the roses of the west windows of the intermediate aisles
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[Version 0.05: May 2008]