The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci Complete


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Group V.  
Suggested by San Lorenzo at Milan.  
In MS. C. A. 266 IIb, 8l2b there is a plan almost identical with  
that of San Lorenzo. The diagonal sides of the irregular octagon are  
not indicated.  
If it could be proved that the arches which, in the actual church,  
exist on these sides in the first story, were added in 1574 by  
Martimo Bassi, then this plan and the following section would be  
still nearer the original state of San Lorenzo than at present. A  
reproduction of this slightly sketched plan has not been possible.  
It may however be understood from Pl. LXXXVIII No. 3, by suppressing  
the four pillars corresponding to the apses.  
Pl. LXXXVII No. 1 shows the section in elevation corresponding with  
the above-named plan. The recessed chapels are decorated with large  
shells in the halfdomes like the arrangement in San Lorenzo, but  
with proportions like those of Bramante's Sacristy of Santa Maria  
presso S. Satiro.  
MS. C. A. 266; a sheet containing three views of exteriors of Domes.  
On the same sheet there is a plan similar to the one above-named but  
with uninterrupted aisles and with the addition of round chapels in  
the axes (compare Pl. XCVII No. 3 and page 44 Fig. 1), perhaps a  
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