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No 4. VERONA DUOMO
under the fine red marble base (a b c in fig 3) but, seen
far off they are harsh and mean in the singular vertical
divisions of the two red plinths. I forgot to note a
most curious excrescential ornament; the boss, like
Ball flowers 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 worst 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 bricks 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 perdectly level:
as seen in section a. The arch is of brick: the support-
ing abacus of paler red marble; the jamb of yellow
marble. Its masonry
The dotted line cntinuing the section where the grey block
is narrowest.
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VERONA DUOMO
as in duomo front, as early as the ninth century, of
the classic wreath to Gothic mouldings, (and again at
Palaz: Minischalchi etc) the same members on the other
side of the pie[o]r carrying the aisle vaulting, sub arch
and rib; and the remaining half shaft carrying the pier
arch: The sub arches pier arch are all equally wide,
the pier arch of the section fig 6 a Venetian double
dentile - very bold and fine - b cable: the sub-
arches have no dentils and are only of about the depth
c d; carried by the semi-octagonal capital head marked by
dotted line: In both the capitals of vaulting shafts and
piers, there are three successive rows of heavy leaf[n]age;
and below all a plain rolt following outline of shaft; the
vaulting sub arches of the aisle are supported by
abominably ugly baskets, having four rows of flowers and
one budding flower at the bottom: The abacus of pier
capital is octagonal of section fig 5 The whole though
systematic is excessively rude and ugly, the flat section
of the architrave, a b fig 6 is too narrow for the arch
and the way it abuts against the vaulting shaft is most
akward and disjointed: the cut paper like capitals have
been noted before: the shaft section is perhaps the
Bases worst of all; its useless truncations making it meagre
without the lead boldness: its base fig 3 (true section
at the outside of red colour) is bold and fine seen here,
especially owing to the great flat grey octagonal block
which is roughly set
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