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                                                                      	of Northern Gothic by its supporting bosses, and         )
                                                                      	and apertures with an entire piece of external composition
                                                                      consisting of a projecting slab with pillars and pediment,
                                                                      canopies as in Brolesto of Como; Cathedral of Florence &c
                                                                      Doge 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 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 then
                                                                      there the roof is wooden:)
                                                                       Superimposition.  Retaining to the question of Finland architecture and
                                                                      String course;  It is evident that in each we may have (4)
                                                                      arch above arch (1) Frieze above frieze (2) arch over
                                                                      frieze (3) frieze over arch.  Thus we should have eight
                                                                      nabbers; of which however only    have been used extermally[;]
                                                                      1.  Frieze above frieze (a) CounsedL  In interior of an-
                                                                      cient temples:  as Paestrum, in insular end, Pisa, in bap-
                                                                      tistery of Parma.
                                                                      2.  Frieze above frieze (b) Involved!  I know no example
                                                                      of this style, and I think it would be very useful.
                                                                      2.  Arch over friezes, a coursed;  very rare;  b involved
                                                                      non existant.
                                                                      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 Ambrozio;  b; involved, a most
                                                                      important style, the great Palladium one of the pillar
                                                                       with side fitted pilaster. St Peters and St Pauls 4 arch
                                                                      over arch, b coursed, universal, c involved, constant in
                                                                      Northern Gothic.

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