[M2.2backL]                                                           [M2.2back]									2
                                                                      
                                                                      		Gothic types, as the trefoil, tracery bar, etc, the whole
                                                                      		aim being to involve the building in a graceful net of
                                                                      		lines not to fix the eye on any definite forms:  Divides
                                                                      		into
                                                                      	3. a.	French flamboyant.
                                                                      	3.b.	English perpendicular.
                                                                      Now of these styles:  1. b. is actually the noblest existing;
                                                                      		because it was practised by the noblest men in the noblest
                                                                      		styles in the noblest time of Italian mind;  and it was
                                                                      		brought to absolute completion in its methods of finish:
                                                                      		which {though} architecturally speaking its science and
                                                                      		system are not so fine as those of 2a:  1. a. was always
                                                                      		hampered by the inferior natural of the north;  and
                                                                      		necessarily rose to the form 2 a: while the Italians rested
                                                                      		in their perfect 1 b and their 2 b was only a domestic
                                                                      		school.  The spirit of the Grotesque in the North is
                                                                      		also to be considered as opposed to the Italian dignity
                                                                      		and rest.
                                                                      		Then further, observe, 1. b. in its degradation, became the
                                                                      		Gothic of Como:  of the Certosa, of the Colleone, at
                                                                      		Bergamo: (and perhaps of Monza and Carrara - consider if
                                                                      		there are not a two separate early school) and that not
                                                                      		altogether ungracefully;  because never having lost
                                                                      		sight of the surface, the cinque cento work mixed
                                                                      		naturally with the rest:  but the French, before they
                                                                      		came to the same

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