. A history of architecture in Italy from the time of Constantine to the dawn of the renaissance. Fig. 185. Venice. Decoration of Palace Fronts. meandering vine, the stem twisting itself into circles filled by fruitand leafage, by grotesque little animals, and in one instance by theByzantine symbol of the raised hand with two fingers arch, as in the last mentioned example, is enclosed within asquare, formed in this instance by a single row of the Venetian den-til ; the spandrils were once filled with some decoration which hasnow quite disappeared. (Fig. 190.) ^Ye come now to that
. A history of architecture in Italy from the time of Constantine to the dawn of the renaissance. Fig. 185. Venice. Decoration of Palace Fronts. meandering vine, the stem twisting itself into circles filled by fruitand leafage, by grotesque little animals, and in one instance by theByzantine symbol of the raised hand with two fingers arch, as in the last mentioned example, is enclosed within asquare, formed in this instance by a single row of the Venetian den-til ; the spandrils were once filled with some decoration which hasnow quite disappeared. (Fig. 190.) ^Ye come now to that building towards which all this gradualdevelopment of the Byzantine decorative spirit had been tendingfor centuries, and in which it found its last and orownino- ^ Church of perfection — the church of St. ^lark at Venice. As early st. Mark. Venice. as the middle of the ninth century (there is no certainty asto the exact date, but probably during the reign of the Doge OrsoPartecipazio, from 864 on), a church was built to receive the body ofSt. Mark, whicii had been brought from Alexandria to
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