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ARCHITECTURE OF THE REISTAISSANCE
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circular pediment pierced with a large round opening and five smaller ones ranged on its semicircumference. The wall sur-

Fig. 89. — Santa Maria dei Miracoli, Venice.

faces are incrusted with marble panelling set with disks and lesser panels of cruciform and rectangular shapes in faintly coloured marbles, and the whole building is a marvel of excel-