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Notebook M p.17 Monza Duomo ‘The gem of the facade is however its porch, of which the general idea is at p 42 l. 1. It unites in the most graceful way apparently discordant elements: Round arches, rich foliation, pointed gables enclosing circles of most rich and strange tracery above, and classical mouldings of exquisite delicacy. The doorway is a most superb round arch, its tympanum filled by a very quaint sharp delicate abd flat bas relief, which gives double force to its magnificent encircling moulding - the doorway itself quite square:’
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