Готовый перевод Собор Cвятого Марка / St. Mark's Basilica: Текст

Cathedrals and other cultural buildings.

St. Mark's Basilica.

The Catholic temple is erected on the island city Venice in the honour of its patroness evangelist Mark.

It took several centuries to built a monument of medieval art.

The first Basilic was erected in 832.

After the fire (976) the basis (basement) of the cathedral was erected on the Doges square in 1063.

The next (following) point of construction went back to 1071-1084)

The Basilica was conscecrated in 1094.

In the golden age of Venice the cathedral was completing, was decorated by treasures, relics from the whole world.

St Mark's Basilica - is an architectural ensemble that combines tendency to Byzantine and Western European art.

Its construction was done in Byzantine style (the Greek cruciform).

From the east to the west it is 75m high (или in height), and from the north to the south - 62m.

The cathedral is surmounted by five gilded domes (the height of the main dome is 30 m) has five exits, decorated by five carving portals.

Above the main entrance stands the four of bronze horses (the Greek work of the III century).

On the west facade is placed (towers-pinnacles)?????

Graceful spiers are decorated with unusual statues and gilded crosses.

The cathidral basement is made of brick, faced with marble and decor.

The facades are processed with mosaics, carvings and decorated with sculptures and columns.

The interiour is also pompous.

Byzantine and Venetian masters (Xll-XIV centuries) inlaid walls with mosaic, recreating themes of the Old and New Testament.

The cathedral's floor is flaged with marble slabs.

One of the main shrines of Venice is housed in St. Mark's Basilica - "The Golden Altar" (master Dzhakomodi Marco Bennati, AD ?, Byzantium), decorated with 1300 pearls, 320 emeralds, 100 semi-precious stones.

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