Cornices, capital, and frieze:
In the text of Stones of Venice see:
Works, 9.376 on the notion of the cornice as an unrolled capital Cornice Plate facing Works, 9.360; cornice Works, 9.368 (where the Byzantines are seen as ‘languid copyists); Works, 9.376.
In the notebooks see:
Notebook M p.125 and what seems a related note at Bit Book p.79L.
Notebook M2 p.46 and Notebook M2 pp.53ff on leaf friezes and cornices.
Notebook M p.152 leaf friezes as Byzantine in origin
Notebook M p.179 suggests that the Byzantine house near Foscari shows the original position of Byzantine leaf friezes;
Notebook M p.209 is an attempt to distinguish different kinds of cornice
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