Venice Palace Marble Walls

As an example decorating walls with large veneers of fancy coloured marble or other stones which was certainly a venetian taste was also found in byzantine and islamic architecture but both had derived it from imperial roman architecture.

Venice palace marble walls.

Marble columns of many hues and patterns stacked in double colonnades decorate the façade of saint mark s. The doge s palace italian. The patriarchal cathedral basilica of saint mark italian. When lord byron wrote o venice venice.

Basilica di san marco. Basilica cattedrale patriarcale di san marco commonly known as st mark s basilica italian. After the conquest of constantinople in 1204 venice had access to a great quantity of precious marbles from the sacred and civic buildings of the capital of the eastern roman empire. A great many marble articles were sent to st.

These columns originate from all over the eastern mediterranean where the republic of venice dominated for centuries. When thy marble walls are level with the waters there shall be a cry of nations o er thy sunken halls a loud lament along the sweeping sea he was.