Inside Out Library · Explore

Venice and its story (1910)

Okey, Thomas, 1852-1935 · London, J. M. Dent ; New York, E. P. Dutton · leaf 359

An illustration from Venice and its story, 1910, leaf 359
contains the monumentof Cardinal Zeno, executed at the beginning of the sixteenthcentury. The altar is dedicated to the Virgin of the Slipper,whose figure in bronze has a gilded shoe, in perpetualmemory of the miraculous alchemy by which her slipper,given to a poor votary, was changed to gold. The… … o O THE BASILICA OF ST MARK 237 In the little chapel of the Madonna dei Mascoli at theW. angle of the N. transept, where of old a guild of menused to assemble, are some fine fifteenth-century mosaics byMichele Giambono. They are unhappily injured by restora-tion, but in the main the early…

Art

Internet Archive · Cornell University Library · Public Domain Mark 1.0. Free to use for anything.

More pictures from Venice and its story

More like this