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                                                                      	        No 3.       VERONA   DUOMO
                                                                      Verona Duomo	Interior.  Interesting from its simplicity and grandeur of
                                                                      Vaulting		plan;  but full of error in the principles which are so
                                                                      grandly worked out:  It is a simple line of grand
                                                                      nave arches:  nearly as wide as the shafts are high:
                                                                      pointed so obtusely that I at first thought they
                                                                      had been inscribed in half circles:  They are however
                                                                      somewhat higher;  the arrangement of the shafts given in
		a (rt line) 4½, b (curve) 10½ c (rt line) 2½                        No 3 Fig 1 and a quadrant of section  of pier, Fig 2.  The
		c (curve) 7¾ f (rt line) 3 or 3¼                                    measures of its lines are (inches) x, (rt line) 4½ b (curve
                                                                      10½ c (rt line) 3½ d (rt line) 2, e (curve) 3/4 f rt line c[n]
                                                                      3 or 3¼.  The shape of e-f is very curious, it certainly
                                                                      does not come out to the level of c;  and e is not quite
                                                                      a segment of a circle;  but, in order to give effect to
                                                                      the truncation f;  it is brought nearly straight at the
                                                                      angle:  (and so b with a) while both a and f are if any
                                                                      thing, concaved a little at the angle, to mark it more.
                                                                      Fig 4 was drawn as nearly as possible parallel and equal
                                                                      to e and f.  A being the angle of c on d.
                                                                           Now of this section, the face shaft a b with its
                                                                      two edged shafts f h is carried clear through the capital 
                                                                      and forms the vaulting shaft in fig 1 of which a b car-
                                                                      ries the sub-arch of the nave, and f l the cross ribs,
                                                                      Bay leaf roll which are rolls of bay leaves like those on the doors
                                                                      of the period - Note this application

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