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On this sheet also No 2 fig 2 is an arch of the Lom- MILAN ST AMBROZIO St M. delle Grazio.
bard buildings in the piazza near the cathedral of chief studies to trace this classical feeling adhering
the upper of first story: a is the arch moulding the to the system of Italian Gothic: These Lombards have a
point C being the joint level with wall, which is peculiar Proutishness in the way they fret and enrich their
seen to break off some distance above the capital. surfaces with lines, with little comparatively feeling of
Note how grant that level wall joints generally are. grace: or completion, but often infinitely better than
The line at a is the present inner wall but this all the finish of the cinq-cento. The arcade outside
is a mere falling: as the arcade has formerly been on the west of the church, which I think fronts the
open it is impossible that anything could be more south, is a very beautiful C.C. work, with the double
especially its delicate opening, and proportionate capital in its most developed form: I
increase of breadth in the green and white voussoirs never felt how thoroughly wrong it was before;
The bust on each capital is however somewhat crushed The shafts are mostly smooth: but two (or four) have
and poor: but beautifully placed. knots, truncated, so as to look like a fresh lopped pine
tree, barked, - a curious caprice at this time and on
so large a scale the shafts being 15 or 18 ft high:
the capitals exquisitely drawn and finished and sharp
in cutting.
Vaulting. The nave of St M. delle Grazio, Leonardo’s church: is
remarkable for its bold and simple shafted Gothic -
circular shafts, early English boss-leaved capitals,
bearing a section a opp; of which the square fillet
forms the sub-arch of the Roman vaulting of the aisles
and the rolls cross the vault in front the pilaster
is carried up the clorestery and has another short
capital, unobstrusive, bearing the same members of the
nave vaulting; it is very grand, solid and simple:
St Ambrozio Vaulting. It has been noted that the sub-arch which crosses
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