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18 9
MILAN ST AMBROSIO
both ways from the abacus, of the capital, a b b c and
the curve is as accurate as could be drawn from the
determination of the ordinates of the points, d e f
with the condition of the curves being perpendicular
at f to fg h. is the section of the band which forms
the complicated pattern of the left hand arch: it is
also though more rudely vut that of the stalks of the
leaves in the ornament below and even of the narrowest
and most simple braid of the one inch moulding brick it: x
in fact all the bands have two angular furrows cut
along them with the chisel: in distant effect they
as well as of the moulding - How vile are divided into three by two dark lines, which are
it is in penmanship how beautiful when the time stained ridges. The ridges branch to each
properly gifted with substance and light and shade, and indent of every leaf[r]: the furrows being cut from the
how much depends on the slight and graceful points of the foils; at i is the centre of the
variations of its curvature by interlacing, and on abacus ornament of the bird capital on the
the Proutish richness of filling lines: note that extreme right real size, and at k one of the leaves
at the base this moulding fits thus - and is enlarged, showing theprinciple of the whole:
gradually at about the seventh or eighth loop made there are four such leaves on one side of the abacus:
alternate five, more crowded on the other - so curiously
enough, a single fanshaped leaf has been turned in one
out of the 13 loops of the ovolo moulding, as seen at
1. and apparently rejected: and the loops have not
quite filled their places, and have therefore been
pulled out and made more stalky on the opposite side:
it is curious to see ornament so thoroughl[e]y classical
Classical Gothic and fine mixed with statues so rude: and it must
be one of my
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[Version 0.05: May 2008]