. Brick and marble in the middle ages: notes of tours in the north of Italy . t all equalto English tracery, as they are very flat in their efiect, andhave no proper subordination of parts. There is a large rosewindow in the centre division treated in a better mannerthan is usual, and set within a square line of moulding, withsmall circles in the spandrels, and a line of square 2)anels oneach side continued in the most unpleasing way above ; fiveother smaller circular windows are similarly treated. In someparts of the wall the courses of black marble are continuationsof the black arch-stones o
. Brick and marble in the middle ages: notes of tours in the north of Italy . t all equalto English tracery, as they are very flat in their efiect, andhave no proper subordination of parts. There is a large rosewindow in the centre division treated in a better mannerthan is usual, and set within a square line of moulding, withsmall circles in the spandrels, and a line of square 2)anels oneach side continued in the most unpleasing way above ; fiveother smaller circular windows are similarly treated. In someparts of the wall the courses of black marble are continuationsof the black arch-stones of tlio windows, which, though notuncommon in Italian pointed work, is never satisfactory in itseffect. In the upper part of tlic front this is not the case. Chap. XIL] THE CATHEDRAL. 335 The central division has a porch resting upon detachedslialts, and with a semicircular arch, which is, however, richlycusped; and throughout the front semicircular and pointedarches seem to have been used quite indiscriminately. Thebuttresses which divide the front were originally finished. CATHEimAL—MONZA. with pinnacles, of which one only now remains; this is cer-tainly very beautiful, of precisely the same type as thepinnacles on some of the tombs of the Scaligers at Verona,standing on detached shafts, with gables on either side, sup-ported on trefoiled arches, and with small pinnacles betweenthe gables, all of which are crocketcd; the mouldings arc 336 MONZA. [Chap. XTT. very flat, but in the pure white marble seen against thedeep blue sky of Italy this flatness is as much a virtue and abeauty as its counterpart executed in stone in chilly Englandwould be poverty-stricken and tame. All the remainder ofthe exterior of the Duomo is of red brick, with some particu-larly good detail. I give one window from the south side ofthe choir as an example. There is a large low cloister on the north side, and fromthis the central tower is best seen; it is an octagon of twostages in brick and stone, a g
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