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ARCHITECTURE OF THE RENAISSANCE
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of San Zeno of Verona (Fig. 83) will illustrate this. In San Zeno we have a sheltering porch and a portal, and each is rea-

Fig. 83.—Porch of San Zeno, Verona.

sonable in itself, while they are equally reasonable in combination. But if the porch were eliminated, with exception of its façade, and this façade were drawn back into the plane of the