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24 15
MONZA DUOMO
with a square panneled surface ornamted with more dig-
nity even than with a diamond, and this idea of Monza
is nothing else than the rose of St Etienne Beauvais
with its diamond pannelling set vertical; its bars
instead of a mere roll, turned into a flat classical
moulding, with rich flowerwork on the sides and the
roses of the fillings turned into hollow tracery: Evi-
debtly this enrichment would be an improvement if the
traceries were fine; they are however impure, and
many of them ugly and like ventilators or iron work:
Wheel windows the stars, many of them, harsh and stiff. The wheel
windows itself have an exquisitely deep and rich classi-
cal moulding substituted for the crude Norman one:
it is simply formed by sixteen regular shafts and
capitals bearing the tracery 1 p 41 L n. Two ohthr
other smaller roses in squares occur each on the flank of
the great one. Below on each side, of a superb
Traceries round arch, filled with tracery, very elegant, in the
southern one, and surrounded by a twisted column
moulding only inferior to Florence in grace and com-
pletion it is Florence without its mosaics and founded
on a Romanesque idea instead of a Gothic one: The
twisted columns stand clear; and have been broken
among away in one place [p,ace] from the top of the arch,
which they encircle, and from its side; all is of
marble: the other windows are pointed, their mouldings
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[Version 0.05: May 2008]