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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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