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                                                                      	and fiercely alive too (x) all impatience and spring;
		On this archivolt above them occur birds -                          the Byzantine birds pecl idly at the fruit, and the ani-
	dragons - rabbits - apes - and children among                        mals hardly touch it with their noses;  the cinque bento
	the leaves;  this a frequent device and vide                         birds - in Venice - hold it up daintily like trainbearers
	use of it by Lord Lindsay:  This frieze is as                        - the birds of Noah and Ducal Palace and Adam, peck at
	varied as the Byzantine ones (common) are similar                    it hungarily and naturally, but the Lom[i]bard beasts gripe at it like tigers and tear it off with writhing lips and 
                                                                      glaring eyes:  They are exactly like Tip with the bit of
	Another interesting form of the shafts occurs in the group           geranium - owrrying imaginary cats in it.  Fig  6 is the
od ones of the west front octagonal barred diagonally                 head of the dragon in fig 5 drawn larger, but I cannot
like the St Marks capitals i.e.                                       give the greedy look of the under lip, protruded like a
                                                                      horse’s.
                                                                      The section of this archivolt is as opposite fig 1
                                                                      its under surface having the twisted triple fill[e]t;
	All these shaft patterns - like all the rest of the orna-            The orders of he  door of the north transept are covered
mentation are models of mastership in their adaptation                almost exclusively with braids and traceries of this
to distance, and in this serene study lines, Compare p 179            fillet, whose section is always      :  the most complex
below 1.                                                              forms of St Anbrozio 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 incrosses and other
                                                                      figures, a kind of commencement of the inlaying of Cremona;
                                                                      and correspondent in some respects to the circular toudi of
                                                                      St Marks.  Right up the front there are

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