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from the bold open arcade with R. shafts beneath it;
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 palce; and the Byzantine
ones: Consider the reason of the walling up of the founda-
tions.
Chanfers. These seem two ways of arriving at them, one from the
nook shaft, thus
this latter a very frequent early form, and so
and the other from the pure chamfer by
facing it, or from the edge by chamferin[i]g first, i.e.
or perhaps better from
the edge thus
the chamfer from the nook shaft is the one at Padua in
most early work at Venice the moulding of the
Byzantine seems to have receded into the chamf[g]er.
The screen of the San Felice chapel Padua is curious for
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
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(X) and the Cresitium p 56 1.
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