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[M2.133L]                                                             [M2.133]								133
                                                                      			Cremona   Duomo
                                                                      
                                                                      		the Servi bricks) is given at p 13.  Twelve of these
                                                                      		compartments are on each side of arch, reaching a little
                                                                      		below the dripstone and then five more go to bottom of
                                                                      		jamb.  This will give me the proportion better than my
                                                                      		sketch at p 11.
                                                                      		Note also in that sketch I don’t think the cross band
                                                                      		ought to run below the central parallelogram, but that
                                                                      		this should touch the pointed arch, and the band be on
                                                                      		each side of it, as in next window at p 14. - then however
                                                                      		only the inner part or tympanum is given.  I have no doubt
                                                                      		whatever of the correctness of the moulding x as
                                                                      		given on p 15 It is cast in pieces whose joints are marked
                                                                      		at p 14 where however it is too wide in proportion to the
                                                                      		star.
                                                                      		Passages to be referred to in Lord Lindsay.
                                                                      Cicognara:	Attack L’s opinion of him, and Cico. of Italian art at p 61
                                                                      Greek mind:	How could it lose its power in the 12th century in Italy
                                                                      		if St Marks was only then built, p 68.
                                                                      Lombards:	Their intercourse with Byzantines and adoption from them
                                                                      of Green cross, p 68.
                                                                      Martin:		Lord L’s opinion, p 69
                                                                      Image worship:  Consider carefully the effect on art of the council
                                                                      		of Xendom in 692 at p 71 with references there.
                                                                      Peacocks.	Vid introduction at p 23, and afterwards p 103
                                                                      		How difficult - in all - to separate symbolical from
                                                                      		ornamental function.

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