A cyclopaedia of works of architecture in Italy, Greece, and the Levant (1895)
Longfellow, William Pitt Preble, 1836-1913 · New York, Scribner's sons · leaf 607
f whose earlierhistory many questionable stories are told.The four lesser arches enclose each a smallplain round-beaded window, the arch headbeing fllled with mosaic. All the archesare surrounded by carved archivolts, thatof the centnd arch the largest and richest,and all are surmounted by ogee… … Fig. 237.—Venice, S. Marco. canopies enclosing statues and finishedwith spires. Behind these rise the greatdomes of various sizes and heights, coveredwith metal and crowmed with bulbouscupolas. The effect of the whole is one 519 VENICE of iiKlcscribable strangeness, as far re-moved from tlie…
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