Como
For the ‘meaningless ornamentation’ of the cathedral at Como see Works, 9.44, where it is linked with the Certosa of Pavia, the Porta della Carta in Venice, and the ‘wild crockets of St Mark’s’. At Works, 9.263 Italian Gothic is free from the taint of the ‘barbarism’ found in the porches of Bourges, where at Notebook M2 p.179 ‘everything is overcrowded & misplaced - joyless and valueless’, until the Renaissance period when in Italy it becomes rampant in the Certosa of Pavia and the cathedral of Como.
 |
| For details of image see here |
[Version 0.05: May 2008]
){kind=link}