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                                                                      No 4.	Verona.  Duomo	22
                                                                      
                                                                      		under the fine red marble base (a b c in fig 3) but, seen far
                                                                      		off they are harsh and mean in the angular vertical divisions of the two
                                                                      		red plinths.  I forgot to note a most curious excrescential
                                                                      Ball flowers	ornament;  the boss, like a long closed ball, or in some cases like
                                                                      		a pine apple, which is set up on the members of the vaulting:  On
                                                                      		the pier arch there are 5:  3 are seen in fig 1:  six on the
                                                                      		nave sub arches;  four on the aisle sub-arches:  and 10 on each
                                                                      		vaulting rib of both nave and aisle:  (5 on each side) the crossing
                                                                      		of the ribs having shields - (Q .(contemporary)  Nothing can possibly
                                                                      		be worse that the effect of those scattered dots, they look like
                                                                      		holes left for scaffolding.
                                                                      		The light is admitted only by small circular windows above each
                                                                      		pier arch:  and at the ends of nave and aisles: Yesterday,
                                                                      		Sunday, they drew the curtains over these lights during the
                                                                      		preaching and made the church as dark as a cave: gleams of
                                                                      		lightning being caused by the lifting of the curtain at the entrance
                                                                      Round arch	No 4.  Jamb of a most beautiful circular arch in a house
                                                                      		near Duomo.  Alternate 5 bricks and white stone: 4 of the
                                                                      		brick voussoirs on each side, one white stone in centre: form double
                                                                      		dentils to each white or red voissoir. but note that the dentils
                                                                      		are cut into the brick:  the surface of the wall being perfectly
                                                                      		level: as seen in section a.  The arch is of brick: the supporting
                                                                      		abacus of paler red marble;  the jamb of yellow marble.  Its masonry

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