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[M.5L]                                                                [M.5]	Milan . Duomo.	5
Things to be drawn at Venice, if possible . or F daguerred            
 1.	Dentiled sq. of house p 1 Housebook (H)                           		here at Milan (the  aisles next nave) it is very bad: but when
 2.	Verification of Tracery: if semicircle of cusps p. 65. and pillar Inconsistancy	finally foliated as in fig 1 the inner lobes with round the
band p 66.                                                            		outer with sharp foils - but all vulgar in curve:  and chasing
 3.	Verify section of door on No 49.                                  		each other round, the inner lobes topsy turvy at one side and
 4.	Get Masonry of archivolt and section of its filleted roll in      		the outer at the another, it is perfectly execrable: Note that the
No 50.                                                                		life of the flamboyant is, as of fire itself, its going up :  and
 5.	In no 47 I doubt chamfer of archivolt, fig 1 A.                   		so sympathy with the rest of Gothic).  The fig 1 is ½ of
 6.	Sections of San Stefano capital No 30.                            		the rose of the window in northern side of the triagonal apse.
 7.	For windows of fourth order: the house described here p 58 seems  Flamboyant	That of the centre is worse still. its centre, instead of being
valuable.                                                             Compare p	open foliated, is a circle enclosing a stone tracery of the common
 8.	Verify.  shafts question Foscari No 56 and its door section No 49 127 here.	undulating star shape, fig 3:  The tracery of the rose of
 9.	Fondaco di Turchi, large capital section uncertain.               		the central west window is given at p 30:  there are five similar
10.	Exquisite staircase close to San Francesco: at the Casa Contarini 		crescents, nautilus like, round the star:  the whole evidently
di Porta di Ferro, with pointed arch balustrade                       		founded on an old pierced rose:  the star in the centre ought
11.	For Calle del Remedio. Cross by Bianca Cappello -turn             		to be smaller and sharper as at a.  The rest of the architecture
to right & take bridge just before the fondamente dell Angelo.        		among which this curious flamboyant is set, is a perpendicular
12.	Questions of cusps, Palazzo Cavalli p 93 -                        		with horizontal bars across: and with the most detestable crocketing
13.	Palaz. Cavalli Court, return to -                                 		I have ever seen:  utterly vile; not a ray of invention in a single
14.	See the abbazia della Misericordia.                               		form:  at p 30 l is rudely given the arrangement above the
15.	St Alvise - or St Lodovico                                        		transept windows: with the lower base finial literally a guisa
Colonna d’Infamia alla Ponte della Croce - vicino                     		di liuto, like Adam of Brescia in Dante, the one above ends in a square
alla Giardini - Capo d’Opoli                                          		cinquecento kind of altar shaped table: it is curious to see the
St Andrea. Vid  also p 135.                                           		abused ogee below mixed with the form of a better time above,

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