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A Wanderer in Venice

CHAPTER XVII
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The only mosaic on the facade of S.Mark's which still remains is that in the arch over the left door; and that also is the only arch which has been left concave.

The three flagstaffs are there, but they have wooden pediments and no lions on the top, as now.

The Merceria clock tower is not yet, and the south arcade comes flush with the campanile's north wall; but I doubt if that was so.

The miracle of that year was the healing of a youth who had been fatally injured in the head; his father may be seen kneeling just behind the relic.
The next most noticeable picture, also Gentile Bellini's, records a miracle of 1500.

The procession was on its way to S.Lorenzo, near the Arsenal, from the Piazza, when the sacred emblem fell into the canal.
Straightway in jumped Andrea Vendramin, the chief of the Scuola, to save it, and was supernaturally buoyed up by his sanctified burden.


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