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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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