268 10. FINAL APPENDIX II. DOORWAYS

If the reader will take a magnifying glass to the figure 6 d, he will see that its square ornaments, of which, in the real door, each contains a rose, diminish to the apex of the arch; a very interesting and characteristic circumstance,

a. Northern lateral door.

b. First northern door of the façade.

c. Second door of the façade.

d. Fourth door of the façade.

e. Central door of the façade.

showing the subtle feeling of the Gothic builders. They must needs diminish the ornamentation, in order to sympathise with the delicacy of the point of the arch. The magnifying glass will also show the Bondumieri shield in No. 7 d, and the Leze shield in No. 7 e, both introduced on the keystones in

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