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                                                                      143						133
                                                                      
                                                                      		CREMONA   DUOMO
                                                                      
                                                                      	the Servi bricks) is given at p 13.  Twelve of these
                                                                      compartments are on each side of arch, reaching a little
                                                                      below the dripstone and then five more go to bottom of
                                                                      jamb.  This will give me the proportion better than my
                                                                      sketch at p 11.
                                                                      Note also in that sketch I don’t think the cross band
                                                                      ought to run below the central parallelogram, but that
                                                                      this should touch the pointed arch, and the band be on
                                                                      each side of it, as in next window at p 14. - then however
                                                                      onlythe inner part or tympanum is given.  I have no doubt
                                                                      whatever of the correctness of the moulding x as
                                                                      given on p 15 It is cast in pieces whose joints are marked
                                                                      at p 14 when however it is too wide in proportion to the
                                                                      star.
                                                                      Passages to be referred to in Lord Lindsay.
                                                                      Cicognana:  Attack L’s opinion of him, and Cico. of Italian art at p 61
                                                                      Greek mind:  How could it lose its power in the 12th century in Italy
                                                                      if St Marks was only then built, p 68.
                                                                      Lombards:  Their intercourse with Byzantines and adoption from them
                                                                      of Green cross, p 68.
                                                                      Martin:  Lord L’s opinion, p 79
                                                                      Image worship:  Consider carefully the effect on art of this[e] council
                                                                      of Xendom in 692 at p 71 with references there.
                                                                      Peacocks.  Vid introduction at p 23, and afterwards p 103
                                                                      How difficult - in all - to separate symbolical from orna-
                                                                      mental function.

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