Quotation from: The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci

Written by: Leonardo da Vinci


Pl. XC, No. 1, (MS. B, 25b); Repetition of Pl. LXXXIV, No. 11.


Pl. XC, No. 2. Elevation to the plan No. 1, and also to No. 6 of the
same sheet._


_E. By chapels formed by four niches:


Pl. LXXXIV, No. 7 (the circular plan on the left below) shows this
arrangement in which the central dome has become circular inside and
might therefore be classed after this group. [Footnote 1: This plan
and some others of this class remind us of the plan of the Mausoleum
of Augustus as it is represented for instance by Durand. See_ Cab.
des Estampes, Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, Topographie de Rome, V,
6, 82._]

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