The four bronze horses were Dandolo's spoils, the Pala d'oro, probably the four carved columns of the high altar, and countless stone pillars and ornaments that have been worked into the structure.
The terms of the treaty were carried out faithfully, and the French paid the Venetians their original debt.

Baldwin, Count of Flanders, the head of the Crusade, was named Emperor and crowned; Venice acquired large tracts of land, including the Ionian Islands; and Dandolo became "Doge of Venice, Dalmatia, and Croatia, and Lord of one-fourth and one-eighth of the Roman Empire." The painters have chosen from Dandolo's career the following scenes: Dandolo and the Crusaders pledging themselves in S.Mark's; the capture of Zara; the request of Alexius for help; the first capture of Constantinople by Dandolo, who set the banner on the wall; the second capture of Constantinople; the election of Baldwin as Emperor; the crowning of Baldwin by Dandolo.
I said at the beginning of this precis of a gigantic campaign that it was not of great profit to Venice; nor was it.

All her life she had better have listened to the Little Venice party, but particularly then, for only misfortune resulted.

Dandolo, however, remains a terrific figure.

He died in Constantinople in 1205 and was buried in S.Sofia.
Doge Andrea Dandolo, whose tomb we saw in the Baptistery, was a descendant who came to the throne some hundred and forty years later.
Mention of Andrea Dandolo brings us to the portraits of Doges around the walls of this great hall, where the other Dandolo will also be found; for in the place adjoining Andrea's head is a black square.