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                                                                      	early work - I think I have spoken of crockets worked on
                                                                      the principle as "pinched crockets"  there is a curious
                                                                      variety of this form on the pinnacles of Ducal palace.
	 The angle is very beautifully turned by this arrangement            The Niche head is remarkable for its excessively Norman
though as at Amiens, the figure and niche on the shaft                character a scaley pyramid terminated by a ball, above
are to be condemned;  and the elaborate bracket support               gabled arches their tympanum inlaid with a
could only be allowed in a single shaftk placed in an impor[-]        in black marble:  correspondent very nearly to
tan[h]t situation.                                                    the penetrations of Lisieux and Bayeux:  the scaley
                                                                      pattern is to be noted also - rarely occurring in sculp-
                                                                      ture in Italy.  but often in coloured pavements always
                                                                      agreeable and delighted in when it occurs naturally in
                                                                      serpe[a]nts, etc by all scul[,]ptors.
                                                                      Above its illegitimate leaf wreath the column is continued
                                                                      five or six feet and finally crowned by a capital - a
                                                                      refined fac[s]simile of the Bird capital on right of St Am-
                                                                      brozio pulpit.  The Southern side porch has a closer
                                                                      relation to the Lombard pure Romanesque than the front;
                                                                      its shafts instead of being waved, or branched with tree
                                                                      stems, are severe square and round with rich surface
                                                                      patters;  the usual animals and braids of the Romanesque;
                                                                      the whole porch may be noted as the style of S[A]t Ambrosio
                                                                       and San Michele carried to the utmost possible refine-
                                                                      ment.
                                                                      	Note these brnched stems of the west front as one of the
                                                                      earliest occurrences of Gothic imitative vegetation sub-
                                                                      dued into architectural severity, i.e.  he shaft or
                                                                      foliation compared of tree stems: instead of the tree
                                                                      introduced as such, as in Scala monuments   The practice
                                                                      is a bad one.

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