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 608
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… … Fig. 238—V. ; •,; , yet from neither of these does one receivea more profound and lasting impression.Tlic building is both without and withina vast storehouse of Byzantine art in formaiul color ; the mosaics are more extensiveand magniticent than in any other existingmonument, unless it be Sta.…
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