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26 17
MONZA DUOMO
The pediment has been planned for six pinnacles: three
on each side of their howevee only the eastern one is
finished, and it is somewhat wiry and poor: the others
are only half build, supported on the delicate cor-
nice shafts: and have been covered for protection with
flattish lead roofs. They hardly interrupt the line of
the pediments, and leave it more grand and precious than
if it had spikes as in Milan.
Porc[h]hes The gem of the french is however its porch, of which
the general idea is at p 42 1. 1. It unites in the most graceful way apparently discordant elements: Round
arches, rich poliation, pointed gables enclosing circles
of most rich and strange tracery above, and classical
mouldings of exquisite delicacy. The doorway is a
most superb round arch, its tympanum flled by a very
quaint sharp delicate abd flat bas relief, which
gives double force to its magnificent encircling
moulding - the doorway itself quite square: but with
figures supporting angles as at Amiens - the plan of jamb
at 1 p 41 b being the outermost shaft, (which b[h]ears the
spring of porch) b in fig 1 42 1 it is longer than either
of the nook shafts. The beadings of the angles all
different; two drawn large at the side, the inner one, a
at 2 42 1 when a, is the inside of the wall of the door
in its true place and proportion These beadlings are
all most beautiful in effect, the flow of
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[Version 0.05: May 2008]