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Notebook M p.14 ‘Baldacchini The Baldacchino of St Ambrogio [Canopy] is a most curious instance of the first expansion of the Gk. temple into the Gothic niche p 35l1 N. It has the [diagram] of the Gk. temple turned out, like a plume of feathers, a, and carried by a little capital of an angle shaft b; which has a projecting bird at its base c c already showing Gargoyles the Gothic tendency to the Gargoyle: The capital d is very curious, from its sudden reduction of the square abacus to the cylinder by means of the round backed clumsy leaves under the volutes, (barbarously formed of two rude fillets once turned) while the basket pattern is rudely drawn by more incisions. The angle of this gable is considerably larger than 90: the shafts are massy & smooth, of porphyry, and have no base’
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