Title | Scraps from an artist's sketchbook |
Alternative Title | Scraps from an artist's sketch book, with illustrations from the author's original sketches in Rome, Florence, and Venice , photographed by J. Greer, Pendleton |
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Publisher | Daily Chronicle |
Date | 1877 |
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Language | English |
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Original Item Extent | 118 pages; 12 leaves; 19 cm |
Original Item Location | DG427 .R68 1877 |
Original Item URL | http://library.uh.edu/record=b2395052~S11 |
Digital Collection | Exotic Impressions: Views of Foreign Lands |
Digital Collection URL | http://digital.lib.uh.edu/collection/exotic |
Repository | Kenneth Franzheim II Rare Books Room, William R. Jenkins Architecture and Art Library, University of Houston Libraries |
Repository URL | http://info.lib.uh.edu/about/campus-libraries-collections/william-r-jenkins-architecture-art-library |
Use and Reproduction | No Copyright - United States |
Identifier | exotic_201304_003 |
Title | Page 84 |
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File Name | exotic_201304_003_101.jpg |
Transcript | 84 VENICE. ting, called a mosquito curtain, we hope to lie as still as a gravestone and sleep in peace for one night at least. During the many exceedingly hot days we have managed to keep cool at work in the grand old St. Mark's Church. This strangely wonderful piece of architecture of the Greek and Byzantine type, begun in the year 976 and finished in 1071, is surely old enough, but it has grown more beautiful with age ; inside and out it is covered with pictures in Mosaic, chiefly representing events in the life of Christ, and of many saints unheard of in Protestant England. There is an immense profusion of beautiful Oriental marbles and bas-reliefs in bronze, every portion of the walls being covered; the groundwork is of gold, whilst the tesselated pavement has led some to suppose, from its undulating surface, that it is intended to represent the waves of the sea, but we should imagine it is caused by the giving way of the ground after so many centuries; in this, as in almost every |