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[M.9L] [M.9] Milan St Ambrogio 9
both ways from the abacus of the capital, a b b c and
the curve is as accurate as could be drawn from the deter-
as well as of the [diagram] moulding - How vile it is in penmanship - how beautiful mination of the ordinates of the points, d e f: with the
when properly gifted with substance and light and shade, [diagram] and condition of the curve's being perpendicular at f to fg.
how much depends on the slight and graceful variations of its h. is the section of the band which forms the complicated
curvature by interlacing, and on the Proutish richness of pattern of the left hand arch: it is also. though more rudely
filling lines: note that at the base this moulding fits thus, - [diagram] cut that of the stalks of the leaves in the ornament below
and is gradually at about the seventh or eighth loop made and even of the narrowest & most simple braid of the one inch moulding
alternate [diagram] . beside it: * in fact all the bands have two angular furrows
cut along them with the chisel: in distant effect they are
divided into three by two dark lines, which are the time stained
ridges. The ridges branch to each indent of every leaf: the furrows
being cut from the points of the foils; at i is the centre
of the abacus ornament of the bird capital on the extreme right
real size, and at k one of the leaves enlarged, showing the
principle of the whole: there are four such leaves on one side of
the abacus: five, more crowded on the other - so curiously
enough, a single fanshaped leaf has been turned in one out of
the 13 loops of the ovolo moulding, as seen at 2. and apparently
rejected: and the loops have not quite filled their places, and
have therefore been pulled out & made more stalky on the
opposite side: It is curious to see ornament so thoroughly classical
Classical Gothic and fine mixed with statues so rude: and it must be one of my
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[Version 0.05: May 2008]