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Title: Italy from the Alps to Mount Etna
Year: 1877 (1870s)
Authors: Stieler, Karl, 1842-1885 Cavagna Sangiuliani di Gualdana, Antonio, conte, 1843-1913, former owner. IU-R Paulus, Eduard, 1837-1907 Kaden, Woldemar, 1838-1907 Trollope, Frances Eleanor, d. 1913 Trollope, Thomas Adolphus, 1810-1892
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Publisher: London : Chapman and Hall
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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ed beneath the portal of the church of St. Mark, whichstands alone amidst all temples of the world. Although age, and the moist sea air, havespread their veil over these walls, yet the brilliant colouring and the mighty outlines shinethrough all the grey dimness of the past. The bronze horses above the great door arc VENICE. 65 rearing : the cupolas and arches stretch their great curves in intensity of power : eachportion of the huge building seems alive and animated, yet in the whole, reigns the pro-found and noble peace proper to the house of God. It is difficult to shake off the grand impression of this whole, sufficiently to examinethe rich abundance of details which are displayed before us—almost every one of deephistorical interest, almost every one of perfect beauty. It is now exactly eight hundredyears ago since the building of St. Marks was completed ; its ecclesiastical sanctity isbestowed on it by the relics of the great Evangelist; its historical sanctity consists in its
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ON THE ISLAND OF TORCELLO. intimate connection with the fortunes of the city and of her rulers. It was the theatre oftheir triumphs and the refuge for their cares ; all that she has achieved and suffered,Venice has clone under the protecting wing of St. Mark. On looking towards the mainfacade we are overpowered by the mass which has been piled up by the wealth of the city,and the fertility of her creative power. Five mighty arches, supported on noble columns,form the entrance to the outer vestibule, and the bronze doors leading into the interior,the mosaics upon a back-ground of gold, the many-coloured marbles—all these make soprofound an impression on us, that we stand still and gaze upward in bewilderment.Each by itself is a wonder! It is known that the famous group of four horses, whichstands above the main portal, is of the antique Roman period, and was for a long time inByzantium, the capital of the Empire of the West. The Doge Dandolo, at the age ofninety-five, led on the Vene

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