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                                                                             MONZA DUOMO
                                                                      		with a square panneled surface ornamted with more dig-
                                                                      nity even than with a diamond, and this idea of Monza
                                                                      is nothing else than the rose of St Etienne Beauvais
                                                                      with its diamond pannelling set vertical;  its bars
                                                                      instead of a mere roll, turned into a flat classical
                                                                      moulding, with rich flowerwork on the sides and the
                                                                      roses of the fillings turned into hollow tracery:  Evi-
                                                                      debtly this enrichment would be an improvement if the
                                                                       traceries were fine;  they are however impure, and
                                                                      many of them ugly and like ventilators or iron work:
                                                                      Wheel windows	the stars, many of them, harsh and stiff.  The wheel
                                                                      windows itself have an exquisitely deep and rich classi-
                                                                      cal moulding substituted for the crude Norman one:
                                                                      it is simply formed by sixteen regular shafts and
                                                                      capitals bearing the tracery 1 p 41 L n.  Two ohthr
                                                                      other smaller roses in squares occur each on the flank of
                                                                      the great one.  Below  on each side, of a superb
                                                                      Traceries		round arch, filled with tracery, very elegant, in the
                                                                      southern one, and surrounded by a twisted column
                                                                      moulding only inferior to Florence in grace and com-
                                                                      pletion  it is Florence without its mosaics and founded
                                                                      on a Romanesque idea instead of a Gothic one:  The
                                                                      twisted columns stand clear;  and have been broken
                                                                      among  away in one place [p,ace] from the top of the arch,
                                                                      which they encircle, and from its side;  all is of
                                                                      marble:  the other windows are pointed, their mouldings

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