123 114 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 ____________________________ (X) and the Cresitium p 56 1.
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