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interior balcony, Salviati's restored 1542-52 mosaic of the Virgin's family tree shows
Mary's ancestors perched on branches, alternately chatting and ignoring one another, as
families do. Hidden over the altar is the
doge's banquet hall
, where dignitaries wined and
dined among lithe stucco figures of Music, Poetry and Peace.
Treasury
Holy bones and booty from the Crusades fill the
Tesoro
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(Treasury; admis-
sion €3; 9.45am-5pm Mon-Sat & 2-5pm Sun, to 4pm winter)
, including a 10th-century rock-crystal
ewer with winged feet made for Fatimid Caliph al-'Aziz-bi-llah. Don't miss the bejeweled
12th-century Archangel Michael icon, featuring tiny, feisty enameled saints that look
ready to break free of their golden setting and mount a miniature attack on evil. Velvet-
padded boxes preserve doges' remains alongside alleged saints' relics, including St
Roch's femur, St Mark's thumb, the arm St George used to slay the dragon and even a
lock of the Madonna's hair.
