[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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