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23 14
MILAN ST AMBROSIO MONYA
Baldacchini The Baldacchion of St Ambrozio is a most curious
instance of the first expansion of the Gk. temple into
the Gothic niche p 35 1 N. It has the of
the Gk. temple turned out, like a plume of feathers, a and carried by a little capital of an angle shaft
b; which has a projecting bird at its base c c already
Gargoyles showing the Gothic tendency to the Gar[n]goyle: The capital
d is very curious, from its sudden reduction of the square abacus to the cylinder by means of the round backed
clumsy leaves under the volutes, (barbarously formed
of two rude fillets once turned) while the basket
pattern is rudely drawn by more incisions. The angle of
gable is considerably larger than 90: the shafts
are massy and smooth, of porphyry, and have no base.
Late Gothic of (Lucco 1st November) A glorious drive from Milan -
Monya view of Monte Rosa the finest I have ever seen, some
five miles beyond Monya; then the Resegone and the great pyramid which I find is to the right east of the
lake of Lucco; over soft wooded hills, Monya is remark-
able for its engrafting of renaissance fooling on
the Round arch: it is, as I believed, deserving of
notice as a separate school of Gothic, never developed:
The main idea of the front is the surrounding a wheel cir-
cular window with a square, divided into square pannels,
the ribs dividing the pannels cut deep and enriched
with exquisite classical mouldings: and each pannel
filled with a circular tracery or star: Rose windows
may evidently be fityl associated
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