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[M.209L] [M.209] St Marks. Crypt & Cornices. Verona Duomo 209
The smaller leaf Cornice is made most boldly in another house near
Rialto p 4 w bit book. St Marks. General distribution of Cornices. There are three kinds
of plinths or cornices variously used by the Byzantines; in the
house near Rialto {Corte del Remer} both are one is used in the arch: i.e.the
leaf smaller cornice with dentil {above} [?] in the houses
at Riva del Carbon; both; this smaller above, and the
curled leaf nodding over, like a Corinthian capital unwound
below: (I think both are used there - comp old drawing)
but at all events: this smaller one is used along for the cornice
of the lower arches of triforium which I have drawn in
St Marks: the leaf cornice curled over, is used along
the heads of the piers from which the great arches spring:
and is continued ove the abaci of the basket capitals
drawn in Lord Lindsay, and above all the double dentiled
architrave of the five outer façade porches, is used as a band
under the springing of the domes.
In the duomo of Verona: a running frieze with knights and
birds, flat cut, is used under a nodding leaf cornice
with the leaves pure simple Lombard.
Crypt. St Marks. Vid p 22 w bit book.
Niches of Ducal Palace At p 47 bit book, fig 1 is a side, perhaps
not very true in its proportion of pyramid at top, of the eastern
one - next bridge of Sighs. The pyramid of white marble is
flat on the three (or four) sides turned inwards, and
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