[M.15L]                                                               [M.15]	Monza. Duomo.	15
                                                                      
                                                                      		with a square panneled surface ornamented with more dignity 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: 
                                                                      		Evidently this enrichment would be an improvement if the
                                                                      		traceries were fine;  they are however impure, and many of
                                                                      		them ugly & like ventilators or iron work: the stars, many
                                                                      Wheel windows	of them, harsh and stiff.  The wheel window itself has an
                                                                      		exquisitely deep and rich classical moulding substituted for the
                                                                      		crude Norman one: it is simply formed by sixteen regular
                                                                      		shafts & capitals bearing the tracery 1 p 41l N.  Two other
                                                                      		smaller roses in squares occur, each on the flank of the great
                                                                      		one.  Below, on each side of the panels there are two remarkable
                                                                      		windows: , one on each side, of a superb round arch, filled with
                                                                      Traceries	tracery, very elegant in the southern one, and surrounded by
                                                                      		a twisted column moulding only inferior to Florence in grace
                                                                      		and completion: it is Florence without its mosaics & founded
                                                                      		on a Romanesque idea instead of a Gothic one:  The twisted
                                                                      		columns stand clear;  and have been broken away in one place 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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