the: wondrous CATliEDRAL OF ST. MARK AND THE CAMPANn.E: VENICE 



"There rises a vision out of the earth, and all the great square seems to have opened 

 from it in a kind of awe, that we may see it far away; — a multitude of pillars and white 

 domes, clustered into a long, low pyramid of colored light; a treasure heap it seems, partly 

 of gold, and partly of opal and mother-of-pearl, hollowed beneath into five great vaulted 

 porches, ceiled with fair mosaic, and beset with sculptures of alabaster, clear as amber and 

 delicate as ivorv." — Ruskin. 



