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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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