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Facade lunette mosaics dating from 1270
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Dome of Genesis
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Dome of the Prophets
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Pala d'Oro
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Loggia dei Cavalli
PRACTICALITIES
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St Mark's Basilica
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Piazza San Marco
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San Marco
Exterior
Church authorities in Rome took a dim view of Venice's tendency to glorify itself and
God in the same breath, but Venice defiantly created the official doge's chapel in its own
cosmopolitan image, with Byzantine onion-bulb domes, Greek cross layout and Egyptian
