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 616
aderthan the rest and crowned by the statueof St. Mark. The remarkable feature ofthis fayade is the extreme richness andbeauty of its seuljjtural decoration. Thepilasters, columns, and archivolts of thegreat doorway, the friezes and iiedimcntsin all the stories, and the members of the 527 VENICE… … rows of columns on high pedestals, and afine double staircase leading to the upjierhall and chapel, with richly decoratedpanelled ceilings in all the rooms. Thebuilding has since 1815 been made a por-tion of the civil hospital of Venice. {SecFi(j.2Jf6.) ScuoLA Di Sax Rocco, the most gener-ally…
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