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and its old brick bell tower stands yet at the side of the present choir. 
Palladio gave his plan the form of a Latin cross with a gabled projection 
consisting of four half columns. The cross-arms are rounded off and a dome 
rises on the cross. The three-quarter columns of the facade crowned with 
Roman capitals, are 5 feet thick and 54 feet high, and stand upon high 
pedestals and are intersected by the cornices of the corner pilasters which 
are lower. The church is as little an example of a beautiful style as the 
facade of the church of Trevignano (pl. 45, jig. 11), which has a similar 
ground plan but three aisles of equal height, for which reason the facade, 
from the unimportant character of the front attachment, appears jejune 
while it crushes the latter by its weight. Much better is the facade of the 
Church delle Figlie in Venice (jig. 10), which, by the two well harmonized 
arrangements of halfcolumns and pilasters and the graceful gable over 
them, has a good effect. 
10. Tae Cuurcy or St. Francesco pELLA Viena in Venice. This church 
was first erected by Martin da Pisa in the 13th century, and was so ruinous 
in the 16th century, that in 1534 it was renewed from a design of Sanso- 
vino. Palladio changed it somewhat and made the facade ( pl. 46, jig. 11). 
It consists of large and small Corinthian columns of marble, and has a semi- 
circular window. On the sides of the main-aisle, which is 49 feet 3 inches 
wide, are chapels with very beautiful bas-reliefs. There is in this church 
the same impropriety as in the facade of the church San Giorgio Maggiore, 
yet the mouldings of the high pedestal of the half column are better 
combined. The intersection of the columns by the cornice of the lower 
order is, however, not to be justified. Palladio found many imitators in 
France and England. The church of Mary Magdalen at Bridgenorth, 
of which jig. 7 gives the elevation and jig. 6 the ground plan, and the 
church Notre Dame de Lorette in Paris, a view of which is given in jig. 2, 
and the ground plan in pl. 48, jig. 6, are entirely modelled upon the best 
works of Palladio. . 
11. Tae Basmica iy Vicenza. In his 30th year, after completing the public 
palace I] Castillo in Udine, and the villa of his master Trissino, Palladio 
undertook a work of great importance. The magistracy of his native city 
had requested designs from three architects for the reconstruction of the 
council house or the so called Basilica, and as Palladio’s gained the prize 
the work was intrusted to him. Pl. 45, jig. 5, gives a view of this edifice. 
The old building was to be surrounded upon three sides with colonnades of 
hard stone. The columns and pilasters are of marble, the walls of brick. 
The length of the largest side is 395 feet. Of the ten principal pillars, those 
on the corner had three columns, the middle ones had eaeh one half column 
of the Doric order. Between them stand four coupled, small Tuscan columns, 
with an entablature connecting them with the small pilasters of the princi- 
pal pillars. Over these four columns an arch is sprung reaching almost to 
the architrave of the Doric order. The story above is of the Ionic order, 
and disposed in the same way. Over the corner columns stand statues upon 
pedestals, connected by a railing. Over the eight middle columns is an 
attic with round windows, over which is a roof constructed of rafters and 
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