probability, to have perished "in qualche ristauro."

[26] Signed Bartolomeus Bozza, 1634, 1647, 1656, &c.

[27] Guida di Venezia, p. 6.

[28] The mere warmth of St. Mark's in winter, which is much greater
than that of the other two churches above named, must, however, be
taken into consideration, as one of the most efficient causes of its
being then more frequented.

[29] I said above that the larger number of the devotees entered by
the "Arabian" porch; the porch, that is to say, on the north side of
the church, remarkable for its rich Arabian archivolt, and through
which access is gained immediately to the northern transept. The
reason is, that in that transept is the chapel of the Madonna, which
has a greater attraction for the Venetians than all the rest of the
church besides. The old builders kept their images of the Virgin
subordinate to those of Christ; but modern Romanism has retrograded
from theirs, and the most glittering portions of the whole church
are the two recesses behind this lateral altar, covered with silver
hearts dedicated to the Virgin.

[30] Vide "Builder," for October, 1851.

[31] "Quivi presso si vedi una colonna di tanta bellezza e finezza
che e riputato _piutosto gioia che pietra_."--_Sansovino_, of the
verd-antique pillar in San Jacomo dell' Orio. A remarkable piece of
natural history and moral philosophy, connected with this subject,
will be found in the second chapter of our third volume, quoted from
the work of a Florentine architect of the fifteenth century.

[32] The fact is, that no two tesserae of the glass are exactly of
the same tint, the greens being all varied with blues, the blues of
different depths, the reds of different clearness, so that the
effect of each mass of color is full of variety, like the stippled
color of a fruit piece.

[33] Some illustration, also, of what was said in Sec. XXXIII. above,
respecting the value of the shafts of St. Mark's as large jewels,
will be found in Appendix 9, "Shafts of St. Mark's."

[34] See the farther notice of this subject in Vol. III. Chap. IV.

[35] I do not mean that modern Christians believe less in the
_facts_ than ancient Christians, but they do not believe in the
representation of the facts as true. We look upon the picture as
this or that painter's conception; the elder Christians looked upo