Carving of two of the "Four Tetrarchs"

Byzantium in Venice and Ravenna

Venice I took the photo above at St. Mark’s Basilica in Venice, Italy. The men of the Fourth Crusade absconded with it from Constantinople in about 1204. They are two of the “Four Tetrarchs”, in the highly prized purple porphyry marble. It is now housed above the narthex, or porch of St. Mark’s, near the …

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