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21 12
MILAN ST AMBROZIO
It is curious that in St Ambrozio there seems to be
absolute fear of giving the piers the slightest over-
hanging clahnge of weight - the arch mouldings
are either equal to them, or shrink within them:
The only thing approaching to an excess is the section
of the three arches which form the second story of
the entrances: (there are five arches altogether,
but two almost concealed behind the aisles) Round the
atrium the pilasters of the main piers have capitals
which bear the cornice shaft: but the two entrance
piers have capitals only to their : their face
pilasters run up unbroken to the cornice which goes
round the whole court: only when they pass the other
capitals, they each have a square medallion containing
two animals carved more flatly and simply than
usual, to prevent the disjunction of the pier ornament
and yet without breaking on the simplicity of the
pilaster. Above them the cornice of curve intervening
comes the piers of the second story, fig 1 p 33 N.
This capital has therefore somethin[j]g like The shaded section is the pier below the capital,
work in bearing the angle of the sub-arch. substituting the dotted line for the we have
that above the capital, the outer line being the capi-
tal itself x The faces ab cd are richly carved
and form the archivolt as also a2 b2; a2a forms continual
upwards, the cornice shaft: The stone work of
the curved voussoirs a , cd is very narrow in
proportion to the width of the arch, and the brick work
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[Version 0.05: May 2008]