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                                                                      		instead of the front, and the pendant veil of which is
                                                                      		sketched like lace over the vaults of Amiens - Rheims - 
                                                                      		St Ouen - Abbeville &c - is never imagined.
                                                                      		There is by the bye, a very daring foliation in a porch
                                                                      		at Bergamo.  Compare the pulpit at Monza.
                                                                      Madonna dell Orto:  No definite knowledge about it.  Towards close of
                                                                      		14th century, it was erected by a Tiberio di Parma
                                                                      		Generale degli Umiliati;  a monastic fraternity of Milan.
                                                                      		Called Madonna dell ‘Orto because a miraculous image was
                                                                      		found in digging some garden near;  Also called "Santa
                                                                      		Maria Odorifera".  It was certainly rebuilt in 1399,
                                                                      		the first certain date, and the door cannot well be later.
                                                                      		the part of it that is Gothic, that is, for the central
                                                                      		piece may be entirely modern.  The three statues on the
                                                                      		door are by Bartolomeo of the Porta della Carta.
                                                                      x San Nicolo.  Said to resemble Carmini.  It was first built in the
                                                                      		seventh century by the Zancarol family, there seems no data
                                                                      		about it - afterwards.
                                                                      xi.  Santa Caterina - dateless also, in same style.
                                                                      xii.  Sant Apollinare, was first built 1034 - rebuilt beginning of
                                                                      		15th century.
                                                                      xiii.  San Giobbe.  The monastery dates from 1378, (erected by
                                                                      		Giovanni Contarini, the church was consecrated 1493

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