Venice; Grant Allen's historical guide books to the principal cities of Europe treating concisely and thoroughly of the principal historic and artistic points of interest therein (1902)
Allen, Grant, 1848-1899 · New York, A. Wessels Company · leaf 46
ed by St. John the Evangelist and St. Mark ; herthrone and cushion are meant to be characteristicallyByzantine. But this is a tolerable modern imitation, datingfrom 1840. It lacks the grandeur and solemnity of thesimple old work. It probably replaces an older mosaic ofSt. John, to whom the door and… … IffTfa.twrv
Art, Italian · Venice (Italy( -- Guidebooks
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