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[diagram]	On this archivolt above them occur birds - dragons - rabbits		and hotly fiercely alive too (x) all impatience and spring;
		 - apes - and children among 	the leaves;  this a frequent device   		the Byzantine birds peck idly at the fruit, and the animals
		and vide use of it by Lord Lindsay:  This frieze                    		hardly touch it with their noses;  the cinque cento
		is as varied as the Byzantine ones (common) are similar             		birds - in Venice - hold it up daintily like trainbearers
                                                                      		- the birds of Noah and Ducal Palace and Adam, peck at
                                                                      		it hungrily and naturally, but the Byzantine Lombard beasts
Another interesting form of the shafts occurs in the groupof ones of the		gripe at it like tigers and tear it off with rolling writhing lips and 
west front octagonal barred diagonally like the St Marks capitals     		glaring eyes:  They are exactly like Jip with the bit of
i.e. [diagram]                                                        		geranium - worrying imaginary cats in it.  Fig  6 is the
All these shaft patterns - like all the rest of the ornamentation     		head of the dragon in fig 5 drawn larger, but I cannot
are models of mastership in their adaptation to distance, and in      		give the greedy look of the under lip, protruded like a
this serene steady lines, Compare p 179 below 1.                      		horse’s.
                                                                      		The section of this archivolt is as opposite fig 1
                                                                      		its under surface having the twisted triple fillet;
                                                                      		The orders of he  door of the north transept are covered
                                                                      		almost exclusively with braids and traceries of this
                                                                      		fillet, whose section is always [drawing] the most complex
                                                                      		forms of St Ambrogio occur here;  The outer pilasters of
                                                                      		this door, however, are covered all the way up with
                                                                      		monsters in high relief;  with two bodies, one on each
                                                                      		side of pilaster and one head on the angle.
                                                                      		There are no tile decorations to this north transepts
                                                                      		but on the west front this is a very peculiar feature;
                                                                      		concave coloured tiles inserted in crosses and other
                                                                      		figures, a kind of commencement of the inlaying of Cremona;
                                                                      Tondi		and correspondent in some respects to the circular tondi of
                                                                      		St Marks.  Right up the front there are

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