Excerpt from The Bible of St. Mark: St. Mark's Church, the Altar Throne of Venice The Religion of the old Venetians, as disclosed in St. Mark's Church, was altogether Biblical. Originally there was little inscribed upon its walls and domes in sculpture, text, and mosaic, that was not drawn directly and wholly from the Jewish and Christian Scriptures. It is true that in later times some few mosaics and inscriptions of a different character were introduced into the church, but they were not sufficient to impair to any extent its character, and even these, I am glad to say, are being gradually removed, and facsimiles of the original ones, the cartoons of which have been fortunately preserved, are being put up in their places. St. Mark's is thus gradu ally regaining its pristine purity and simplicity. Because, then, of this, its Scriptural character, I have called it the Bible of St. Mark; and I have made this the main title of my book, as it is the point of view from which I have chiefly. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.