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[M2.30backL]                                                          [M2.30back]									30
                                                                      
                                                                      		of Northern Gothic by its supporting bosses, and [diagrams])
                                                                      		and apertures with an entire piece of {external} composition
                                                                      		consisting of a projecting slab with pillars and pediment,
                                                                      		canopies as in Broletto of Como; Cathedral of Florence &c
                                                                      		Doges palace: and so also the classical windows of  M.
                                                                      		Angelo, Palazzo Ricardi, etc note also in Venice and
                                                                      		Verona the dripstone right round the window - a fine style
                                                                      		better than the cornice bracket.  Consider then the expansion of
                                                                      		this into a balcony with shafts at the angles and a roof.
                                                                      		there is a beautiful one on broletto of Monza - only there
                                                                      		the roof is wooden:)
                                                                      Superimposition.  Retaining to the question of involved architecture and
                                                                      		String course:  It is evident that in each we may have (14)
                                                                      		arch above arch (21) Frieze above frieze (32) arch over
                                                                      		frieze (43) frieze over arch.  Thus we should have eight
                                                                      		manners; of which however only [gap] have been used externally
                                                                      		1.  Frieze above frieze (i.e.) Coursed: In interior of ancient
                                                                      		temples:  as Paestum, in insular end [?], Pisa, in
                                                                      		baptistery of Parma.
                                                                      		21.  Frieze above frieze (b) Involved:  I know no example
                                                                      		of this style, and I think it would be very useful.
                                                                      		32.  Arch over friezes, a coursed;  very rare; 2 b involved
                                                                      		non existent.
                                                                      		3.  Frieze over arch a coursed, as when the arc pillars
                                                                      		carry  a vaulting shaft  or rather cornice shaft, to
                                                                      		cornice only, as in St Ambrogio;  b: involved, a most
                                                                      		important style, the great

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