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                                                                      			Vienne Cathedral
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                                                                      		upside down, compare a and b opposite and remember arc de
                                                                      		l’Etoile  But as the semicircular shafts have separate
                                                                      		bases, so they have separate capitals, of which the aforesaid
                                                                      		cornice, containing forms the only abacus:  These
                                                                      		capitals are of all Romanesque work I have yet seen, the
                                                                      		richest :  they are small compared with St Zeno - one 
                                                                      		or two close {imitated} and delicate Corinthian - the 
                                                                      Corinthian	Corinthian order is therefore the origin of all Gothic
                                                                      Order		but most of them groups of ten or twelve figures;  rich
                                                                      		grotesque and elegant beyond description - one (Effie
                                                                      		tells me) having dogs heads small at the angles, with
                                                                      		large leaves coming out of their mouths, which {leaves}
                                                                      		branch at the extremities with tendrils of smaller
                                                                      		leafage interlacing about the capital another not in the
                                                                      		nave, and {of a} lower {shaft} in the choir, is composed of
                                                                      		broad leaves with fir cones between; others of the usual
                                                                      		Early English leaf - each round lobe carved into a head
                                                                      		knotty heads all round.  But the figure groups of the nave
                                                                      		are the most striking.
                                                                      		Let fig 3 p 81 be the head of the shaft with its cornice
                                                                      		above the capitals, stopping on flank of pilaster in
                                                                      		front  Then the pier arch is of two orders;  whose section
                                                                      		is fig 4 of which the first m2 is carried by m of the pier
                                                                      		and the sub arch n2 by n of the pier.
                                                                      		The sub arch is evidently a form of the classical architrave,
                                                                      		its curious

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