Notebook M2 p.161 ‘circular chapels: supported by piers composed of a pure bold thick shaft with an imitative Corinthian capital and complete base, raised on a huge square pedestal and carrying (first I think) a huge abacus continued into a running plinth; and then - a bit of the top of a buttress - a profile of the arrangement at p 51. 1 (fig 1) Veron book I never saw ought so barbarous or so curious - but what an exact mixture of the two styles with renaissance faults added.’
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