The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci Complete


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years after the beginning of the Cathedral, which at that time was  
most likely still sufficiently unfinished to be capable of receiving  
the form of the present sketch.  
Pl. XCVII No. 2 shows the exterior of this design. Below is the  
note: edifitio al proposito del fodameto figurato di socto  
(edifice proper for the ground plan figured below).  
Here we may also mention the plan of a Latin cross drawn in MS. C.  
A. fol. 266 (see p. 50).  
Pl. XCIV No. 1 (MS. L. 15b). External side view of Brunellesco's  
Florentine basilica San Lorenzo, seen from the North.  
Pl. XCIV No. 4 (V. A. V, 1). Principal front of a nave, most likely  
of a church on the plan of a Latin cross. We notice here not only  
the principal features which were employed afterwards in Alberti's  
front of S. Maria Novella, but even details of a more advanced  
style, such as we are accustomed to meet with only after the year  
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520.  
In the background of Leonardo's unfinished picture of St. Jerome  
Vatican Gallery) a somewhat similar church front is indicated (see  
the accompanying sketch).  
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[Illustration with caption: The view of the front of a temple,  
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