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On this sheet also.: No 2 fig 2 is an arch of the Lombard buildings in
the piazza near the cathedral: of the upper or first story:  a is the arch moulding		chief studies to trace this classical feeling adhering to the system
the point c being the joint level with wall, which is seen to         Abstraction of	of  Italian Gothic:  These Lombards have a peculiar Proutishness
break off some distance above the capital. Note how grand this level  Ornament	in the way they fret and enrich their surfaces with lines, with
wall joints generally are. The line at a is the present inner wall. butProut's manner 	little - comparatively, feeling of grace:  or completion, but often
this is a mere filling:  as the arcade has formerly been open  It is impossibleMasonry joints, l.		infinitely better than all the finish of the cinq-cento.  The
that anything could be more exquisitely proportioned than the entire arch. Cinq.cento shafts		arcade outside, on the west of the church, which I think
- more especially its delicate opening, and proportionate increase of breadth		fronts the south, is a very beautiful C.C. work, with the
in the green & white voussoirs.  The bust on each capital is however  		double capital [diagram] in its most developed form:  I never felt
somewhat crushed & poor:  but beautifully placed.                     		how thoroughly wrong it was before:  The shafts are
                                                                      		mostly smooth;  but two (or four) have knots, truncated, 
                                                                      		so as to look like a fresh lopped pine tree, barked, 
                                                                      		- a curious caprice at this time and on so large a scale,
                                                                      		the shafts being 15 or 18 ft high: the capitals exquisitely
                                                                      		drawn & finished & sharp in cutting.
                                                                      Vaulting.	The nave of St M. delle Grazie, Leonardo’s church: is
[diagram]                                                             		remarkable for its bold & simple shafted Gothic - circular
                                                                      		shafts, early English boss leaved capitals, bearing a section
                                                                      		a opp; of which the square fillet forms the subarch of the Roman
                                                                      		vaulting of the aisles: and the rolls cross the vault in
                                                                      		front the pilaster is carried up the clerestory and has
                                                                      		another short capital, unobstrusive, bearing the same members
                                                                      		of the nave vaulting:  It is very grand, solid & simple:
                                                                      St Ambrogio.	Vaulting.  It has been noted that the sub-arch which crosses

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