Notebook M p.204; St M[arks] Book p.56L; St M[arks] Book p.57L are cited by Ruskin for the ‘lily capital’ of the ‘Northern Portico’ in the separate sheets headed St Marks kept at the beginning of M. There are also notes at Notebook M p.197; Sheet No. 134; and Sheet No. 170.
There are references in Stones of Venice as follows:
Works, 9.360 (facing) Plate 15. Cornice Profiles (fig 14) [fig derived from the drawing on Sheet No. 170]
Works, 9.365 (facing). Plate 16. (a) Cornice Decoration, ‘Capital of St Mark’s’
Works, 10.163 (facing). Plate 9;
Works, 10.164 (facing). Plate 10. The Four Venetian Flower-Orders, (figs 3 b and c)
Works, 10.282-283 on the use of the lily,
Works, 11.332 (Plate 7)
For an image of the lily and basketwork capitals of the Byzantine church of San Vitale in Ravenna see here.
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