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                                                                      			Cremona   Duomo
Where could these rich foliations have sprung from in so              
great suddenness, and so distinct from the slow development           		is altogether pointed;  the foliation and window heading
of foliation at Venice.  Who built Cremona and what                   		always maintaining the character:  But here the spirit is
had Saracens to do with it.                                           		thoroughly divided:  the arcades of round arches, and the
                                                                      		rich turrets of successive tiers of them, give the building
                                                                      		an eminently Romanesque aspect while the foliation
                                                                      		and pointing is as sharp and delicate as it is rich.  The
                                                                      		brick mouldings are throughout exquisite, and exquisitely
                                                                      		applied - only in paces a little obscure - being too
                                                                      		flat, as in the bands across the windows at p 11 which
                                                                      		here and there seem almost to escape the eye.
                                                                      		The window at p 19 is entirely in brick except the shafts
                                                                      		and capitals, it is a semicircle - c its highest point,
                                                                      		and this window as well as those at p 11 and p 14 which
                                                                      		are pure points agree in one respect, they have shafts in
                                                                      		the centre only:  their jambs being continuous, with the
                                                                      		sub arch mouldings added, and the sub arches do not spring
                                                                      		from the impost of the great arch, but a good deal below
                                                                      		it, rising with their apices above it.  At a page 11 is
                                                                      		the dripstone of window A (p 11 1) b is that of the central
                                                                      		window of north transept, having a backed dogt.
                                                                      		added below c d on the dripstone angle, c in front d
                                                                      		underneath At p 12 the entire section including dripstone
                                                                      		is given down to sub arch:  at p 13 (a little
                                                                      		conjecturally as regards the stars, they may perhaps have been
                                                                      		mere crosses of bars, or even incisions like

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