Architectural Figures

Venetian architecture has many examples of the exploitation of figurative sculpture as ornament, from the spoliastic use of the sculptures of 'moors' ...


and the tetrarchs attached to the basilica of San Marco ...

to the sculptural programme of biblical scenes integral to the Doges' Palace.

Representing architecture in architecture

The translation of the body of Saint Mark to his basilica in Venice, on Saint Mark's Basilica, Venice