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The smaller leaf Cornice is made most boldly in another ST MARKS CRYPT & CORNICES VERONA DUOMO
house near Rialoto 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 one is used in
the arch: i.e.the leaf smaller cornice with dentil above
in the houses at Riva del Corbon; both; this smaller
above, and the curled leaf nodding over, like a Corinthian
capital unwound below: (I think both are used there -
conf old drawing) but at all events, this smaller one
is used 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 r the abaci
of the basket capitals drawn in Lord Lindsay, and above
all the double dentiled architrave of the five outer facade
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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