1-630-491 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

St Mark's Basilica, Venice, Italy, 1926. The Basilica of St Mark was built in Byzantine style and modelled on two basilicas from the city of Byzantium, the Holy Apostles and the Hagia Sophia. The basilica was consecrated in 1094, but the exterior and internal decoration has evolved over the succeeding centuries. From An Outline of Christianity, The Story of Our Civilisation, volume 4: Christianity and Modern Thought, edited by RG Parsons and AS Peake, published by the Waverley Book Club (London, 1926).