Fair as the palace builded for Aladdin, Yonder St. Mark uplifts its sculptured splendor, Intricate fretwork, Byzantine mosaic, Color on color, column on column, Barbaric, wonderful, a thing to kneel to! T. B. Aldrich. St. Mark's. See FORT ST. MARK'S. St. Mark's Campanile. The great belfry tower of the Cathedral of Venice. It was begun in 888, but not completed till the beginning of the sixteenth century. It is a very conspicuous object in any view of the city; and from its summit, which is ascended by an easy incline, without steps, a magnificent prospect is obtained. Between those pillars [at the entrance of the Piazza of St. Mark], there opens a great light; and in the midst of it, as we advance slowly, the vast tower of S. Mark seems to lift itself visibly forth from the level field of chequered stones. Ruskin. At the corner of the new Procuratie, a little distant from the church, stands the steeple of St. Mark. This is a quadrangular tower, about 300 feet in height. I am told that it is not uncommon in Italy for the church and steeple to be in this state of disunion. This shocked a clergyman of my acquaintance very much. . . . The gentleman was clearly of the opinion that church and steeple ought to be as insepable as man and wife, that every church ought to consider its steeple as mortar of its mortar, and stone of its stone. An old captain of a ship, who was present, declared himself of the same way of thinking, and swore that a church, divorced from its steeple, appeared to him as ridiculous as a ship without a mast. Dr. John Moore. "St. Mark's Place is the heart of Venice. The life which has fled from the extremities still beats strongly here. Apart from all associations, it is one of the most imposing architectural objects in Europe." Hillard. "Of all the open spaces in the city, that before the Church of St. Mark alone bears the name of Piazza, and the rest are merely called Campi, or fields. But if the company of the noblest architecture can give honor, the Piazza San Marco merits its distinction, not in Venice only, but in the whole world; for I fancy that no other place in the world is set in such goodly bounds." W. D. Howells. St. Mark yet sees his lion where he stood Stand, but in mockery of his wither'd power, Over the proud Place where an emperor sued, And monarchs gazed and envied in the hour When Venice was a queen with an unByron. equall'd dower. St. Martin. 1. A picture by Anthony van Dyck (1599-1641), in the church of Savelthem near Brussels, Belgium, representing the saint as dividing his mantle with a beggar. 2. Also a picture upon the same subject, by the same painter, now at Windsor Castle." St. Martin, Boulevard. A fine avenue in Paris, France. St. Martin de Tours. A famous abbey church in Tours, France, of which at present only two towers remain, the rest of the building having been destroyed in the Revolution of 1790. The existing | St. Martin, Porte. See PORTE land, founded by William of Wykeham. The building, which is architecturally fine, was begun in 1387 and finished in 1393. St. Maurice. A noted abbey, said St. Maurice. See CONVERSION OF the nave and choir of which date from the end of the sixteenth century, though the latter was altered in the latter part of the eighteenth century. St. Martin, Rue. A long narrow street in Paris, running from the St. Médard. A church in Paris, river to the boulevards, and continuing under the name of Rue du Faubourg St. Martin, to the Barrière de la Villette on the north of the city. The Boulevart de Sébastopol has deprived it of much of its importance as a thoroughfare. St. Merri. A large church in Paris, begun in 1520 and completed in 1612. It has suffered some injudicious alterations. It is in the Flamboyant style. St. Michael. A picture by Giovanni da Fiesole, called Fra Angelico (1387-1455). In the Uffizi Palace, Florence, Italy. St. Michael. A celebrated picture by Raphael Sanzio (1483-1520), representing the archangel treading on the neck of the dragon, and attacking him with a sword. It is in the Louvre at Paris. "St. Michael not standing, but hovering on his poised wings, and grasping his lance in both hands-sets one foot lightly on the shoulder of the demon, who, prostrate, writhes up, as it were, and tries to lift his head and turn it on his conqueror with one last gaze of malignant rage and despair. The archangel looks down upon him with a brow calm and serious: in his beautiful face is neither vengeance nor disdain, in his attitude no effort. . . The form of the demon is human, but vulgar in its proportions; but, from the attitude into which he is thrown, the monstrous form is so fore-shortened that it does not disgust, and the majestic figure of the archangel fills up nearly the whole space, fills the eye -fills the soul-with its victorious beauty." Mrs. Jameson. St. Michael. A picture by Guido Reni (1574?-1642). In the church of the Cappucini, Rome. "It seems agreed that as a work Ireland, being an ancient church invested with much legendary lore. St. Keyne's Well. A celebrated well in Cornwall, England, which is described in the following rhymes: In name, in shape, in quality, The name to lot of Keyne befell, The shape four trees of divers kind, You drank of the well, I warrant, betimes? He to the Cornishinan said; But the Cornishman smiled as the stran St. Kieran's Chair. A very ancient and venerated stone chair in Kilkenny, Ireland, reputed to be the seat of the saint who preceded St. Patrick in his mission by thirty years, and who was the first to preach Christianity in Ireland. St. Lazare. A house of detention and correction for disorderly women in the Faubourg St. Denis, Paris. Here was formerly a celebrated convent. Well, let us take a look at this guinguette [at the bal Perron at the Barrière du Trône]; a hundred low grisettes, and fifty women of the town whose acquaintauce with St. Lazare and the Prefecture of Police you recognize at once. Taine, Trans. St. Leonard's Crags. The popular name of a cottage in Edinburgh, Scotland, once the home of Effie Deans, the heroine of Scott's tale of "The Heart of Mid-Lothian." St. Louis. A noted frigate of the United States navy, in service in the war of 1812. She was built at Washington. St. Luke. [Ital. Accademia di San Luca.] An academy of fine arts in Rome, founded in the last part of the sixteenth century, and composed of painters, sculptors, and architects. It occupies part of the site of the Forum of Julius Cæsar, and contains, besides numerous designs and models, a collection of pictures by various artists. Among these works is St. Luke painting the portrait of the Virgin and Child, ascribed to Raphael, of which Mrs. Jameson says that it is the most famous of all pictures upon this favorite subject. The skull of Raphael was for a long time thought to be among the treasures of the Academy, until the discovery of the genuine one in the Pantheon. St. Luke. A statue by Giovanni da Bologna, called Il Fiammingo (1524-1608). In the church of Or S. Michele, Florence, Italy. St. Luke. 1. A famous picture by Raphael Sanzio (1483-1520), representing St. Luke as kneeling on a footstool before an easel, and painting the Virgin and Child, who appear to him in the clouds of heaven. Behind St. Luke, Raphael stands looking on. In the Academy of St. Luke at Rome. 2. There is another picture, usually ascribed to Raphael, upon the same subject, in the Grosvenor Gallery, London. St. Luke. A picture by Roger van der Weyden (d. 1464), the Flemish painter. It was originally placed on the altar of the Guild of St Luke at Brussels, Belgium, but is now in the Gallery of Munich, Bavaria. St. Madem's Well. A holy well in Cornwall, England. It was in Catholic times a favorite resort for invalids, who attempted to propitiate the saint by offerings of pins and pebbles. Since the sev enteenth century it has been little visited. St. Margaret. A famous picture of this saint by Raphael Sanzio (1483-1520), painted for Francis I. in compliment to his sister Margaret of Navarre. Now in the Louvre at Paris. St. Margaret (and the Dragon). An altar-picture attributed to Raphael Sanzio (1483-1520), but probably by his pupil Giulio Romano, (1492-1546), representing the saint "issuing from a cave, with the monster crouching around her, while she raises the crucifix against him." This picture is in the Gallery of Vienna, Austria. St. Margaret's. An old and celebrated church in the parish of Westminster, London. It was repaired at the expense of Parliament in 1735. Bull's eyes and targets, St. Marguérite. A church in the St. Mark. A celebrated colossal figure of the apostle by Fra Bartolommeo (1469-1517), the Italian painter. In the Pitti Palace, Florence, Italy. "Among the devotional pictures of St. Mark, one of the most famous is that of Fra Bartolommeo, in the Palazzo Pitti. He is represented as a man in the prime of life, with bushy hair, and a short reddish beard, throned in a niche, and holding in one hand the Gospel, in the other a pen." Mrs. Jameson. St. Mark. See MIRACLE OF ST. MARK. St. Mark preaching in Alexandria. A picture by Gentile Bellini (1421-1501). In the Brera, Milan, Italy. St. Mark's. The cathedral church of Venice, Italy, and one of the most celebrated and interesting buildings in the world. The original church edifice was destroyed by fire in 976. The present building was dedicated to St. Mark, the patron saint of Venice, in 1085. "The church is lost in a dim twilight, to which the eye must be accustomed for some moments before the form of the building can be traced; and then there opens before us a vast cave, bewn out into the form of a cross, and divided into shadowy aisles by many pillars. Round the domes of its roof. the light enters only through narrow apertures like large stars; and here and there a ray or two from some far-away casement wanders into the darkness, and casts a narrow phosphoric stream upon the waves of marble that heave and fall in a thousand colors along the the floor." Ruskin. "It is impossible to find fault with plain surfaces when they are cov ered with such exquisite gold mosaics as those of St. Mark's, or with the want of accentuation in the lines of the roof, when every part of it is more richly adorned in this manner than any other church of the Western world. Then, too, the rood-screen, the pulpit, the pala d'oro, the whole furniture of the choir, are so rich, so venerable, and on the whole so beautiful, and seen in so exquisitely subdued a light, that it is impossible to deny that it is perhaps the most impressive interior in Western Europe." Fergusson. can "This singular edifice neither be described nor forgotten. It is a strange jumble of architectural styles; partly Christian and partly Saracenic, in form a Greek cross, crowned with the domes and minarets of a mosque.... And yet in spite of architectural defects, this church is one of the most interesting buildings in the world. It is a vast museum, filled with curious objects collected with religious zeal, and preserved with religious care. It is the open lap of Venice into which the spoils of the East have been poured." Hillard. "The church, which the mighty bell-tower and the lofty height of the palace-lines make to look low, is in no wise humbled by the contrast, but is like a queen enthroned amid upright reverence. The religious sentiment is deeply appealed to, I think, in the interior of St. Mark's; but if its interior is heaven's; its exterior, like a good man's daily life, is earth's; and it is this winning loveliness of earth that first attracts you to it, and when you emerge from its portals, you enter upon spaces of such sunny length and breadth, set round with such exquisite architecture, that it makes you glad to be living in this world." Fair as the palace builded for Aladdin, Yonder St. Mark uplifts its sculptured splendor, Intricate fretwork, Byzantine mosaic, Color on color, column on column, Barbaric, wonderful, a thing to kneel to! T. B. Aldrich. St. Mark's. See FORT ST. MARK'S. St. Mark's Campanile. The great belfry tower of the Cathedral of Venice. It was begun in 888, but not completed till the beginning of the sixteenth century. It is a very conspicuous object in any view of the city; and from its summit, which is ascended by an easy incline, without steps, a magnificent prospect is obtained. Between those pillars [at the entrance of the Piazza of St. Mark], there opens a great light; and in the midst of it, as we advance slowly, the vast tower of S. Mark seems to lift itself visibly forth from the level field of chequered stones. Ruskin. At the corner of the new Procuratie, a little distant from the church, stands the steeple of St. Mark. This is a quadrangular tower, about 300 feet in height. I am told that it is not uncommon in Italy for the church and steeple to be in this state of disunion. This shocked a clergyman of my acquaintance very much. The gentleman was clearly of the opinion that church and steeple ought to be as insepable as man and wife, that every church ought to consider its steeple as mortar of its mortar, and stone of its stone. An old captain of a ship, who was present, declared himself of the same way of thinking, and swore that a church, divorced from its steeple, appeared to him as ridiculous as a ship without a mast. Dr. John Moore. St. Mark's Column. A famous granite pillar in Venice, Italy, on the summit of which rests the Lion of St. Mark. It was brought from the Holy Land in the twelfth century. St. Mark's Square or Place. [Ital. Piazza S. Marco.] The famous piazza, or square, in Venice, near or around which are grouped all the more celebrated edifices, the Doge's Palace, the Church of St. Mark with its Campanile or bell-tower, the Horologe of Petrus Lombardus, and the other structures which have given to the city its great renown. "St. Mark's Place is the heart of Venice. The life which has fled from the extremities still beats strong. ly here. Apart from all associations, it is one of the most imposing architectural objects in Europe." Hillard. "Of all the open spaces in the city, that before the Church of St. Mark alone bears the name of Piazza, and the rest are merely called Campi, or fields. But if the company of the noblest architecture can give honor, the Piazza San Marco merits its distinction, not in Venice only, but in the whole world; for I fancy that no other place in the world is set in such goodly bounds." W. D. Howells. St. Mark yet sees his lion where he stood Stand, but in mockery of his wither'd St. Martin. 1. A picture by Anthony van Dyck (1599-1641), in the church of Savelthem near Brussels, Belgium, representing the saint as dividing his mantle with a beggar. 2. Also a picture upon the same subject, by the same painter, now at Windsor Castle. St. Martin, Boulevard. A fine avenue in Paris, France. St. Martin de Tours. A famous abbey church in Tours, France, of which at present only two towers remain, the rest of the building having been destroyed in the |