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                                                                      Pedestals	from the bold open arcade with R. shafts beneath it;
                                                                      & shafts	the shafts very short and standing on high pedestals, note
                                                                      		this as allowable when shafts are to serve as foundations:
                                                                      		I think the chief fault of the Venetian palace is a want
                                                                      		of composition about its foundations - its doors being
                                                                      		always bad:  This house at Vicenza shows the way to remedy
                                                                      		the defect: as also the Ducal palace; and the Byzantine
                                                                      		ones:  Consider the reason of the walling up of the foundations.
                                                                      Chamfers.	There seem two ways of arriving at them, one from the nook
                                                                      		shaft, thus [diagrams] this latter a very frequent
                                                                      		early form, and so [diagram] and [diagram] and the other from the
                                                                      		pure chamfer [diagram] by facing it, or from the edge by
                                                                      		chamfering first, i.e. [diagrams] or perhaps better from
                                                                      		the edge thus [diagrams] the chamfer from the
                                                                      		nook shaft is the one at Padua in most early work at
                                                                      		Venice the moulding [diagram] of the Byzantine seems to have
                                                                      		receded into the chamfer.
                                                                      Flat pointed	The screen of the San Felice chapel Padua is curious for
                                                                      Arches		its bold flat point, fig 1 p 52 N. book with open cusp
                                                                      		apparently stuck on to its lower joint, its section
                                                                      		with det cusp below fig 2  Inside of the screen,
                                                                      		the external cable is absent.  The habit of placing a
                                                                      		roll  near the dentil seems Paduan, compare fig 1 p 53
                                                                      		(x) which is from the round arch of the tabernacle
                                                                      	(x)  and the Eremitani  p 56 1.

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