The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci Complete


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Pl. XCI, No. 2 (MS. Ash. 11. 8b) [Footnote 2: The note accompanying  
this plan is given under No. 754.]; on this plan the chapels  
themselves appear to be central buildings formed like the first type  
of the third group. Pl. LXXXVIII, No. 3.  
Pl. XCI, No. 2 above; the exterior of the preceding figure,  
particularly interesting on account of the alternation of apses and  
niches, the latter containing statues of a gigantic size, in  
proportion to the dimension of the niches.  
b. Second Class.  
Composite plans of this class are generally obtained by combining  
two types of the first class--the one worked out on the principal  
axes, the other on the diagonal ones.  
MS. B. 22 shows an elementary combination, without any additions on  
the diagonal axes, but with the dimensions of the squares on the two  
principal axes exceeding those of the sides of the octagon.  
In the drawing W. P. 5b (see page 44 Fig. 1) the exterior only of  
the edifice is octagonal, the interior being formed by a circular  
colonnade; round chapels are placed against the four sides of the  
principal axes.  
The elevation, drawn on the same sheet (see page 47 Fig. 3), shows  
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