[M.16L]                                                               [M.16]	Monza. Duomo.	16
                                                                      
                                                                      		equally deep, but much more simple:  one of their traceries with
                                                                      		relative depth of moulding outside at p 40 l N fig 1  The penetrations
                                                                      		are about the right size, and the tracery should be so adjusted
                                                                      		as to be of equal breadth:  the design is not a bad one:  remarkable
                                                                      		chiefly for the persistence of the round arch, and for the throwing
                                                                      		up of the lateral foils of the 4 foil a. in order to make its
                                                                      		upper and under foils equal:  the effect of the tracery is however
                                                                      		a good deal spoiled by its bad & singular rib section b;  The
                                                                      		cusps separate clumsily by the widening of the cavetto and
                                                                      		are of the same section, as seen in dotted line;  it affects also
                                                                      		the lateral shaft c, though the central ones are cylindrical. 
                                                                      		another curious point about these windows is that the
                                                                      		stripes of serpentine with which the whole façade is barred
                                                                      		horizontally slope down to the outside of its moulding in voussoirs
                                                                      		fig 2 p 41 l.
                                                                      		The cornice running up each side of the broad gable pediment is
                                                                      		very beautiful, though quaint, and the eye does not enough
                                                                      		feel the bracket support of its columns, p 40, and profile
                                                                      		40 l fig 2 N.  The quatrefoil squares with rhomboid between
                                                                      		are not adjusted to the niches below;  but come in all manner
                                                                      		of places; rather more than two squares to each nich:  their
                                                                      		4 foil remarkable for its narrow & broad leaves, p 40 l fig 3
                                                                      		Shadows taken at one in the afternoon to-day.

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