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Marble transenna: a kantharos betweeen two crosses in polygonal frames

Basilica of Sant'Apollinare in Classe, view of the facade

View of the external wall, made of large, regular blocks of stone

Marble transenna: large cross between two couples of peacocks.

Bell tower of the Basilica of Sant'Apollinare in Classe. Unlike the church, the bell tower dates back to the 10th century.

Basilica of Sant'Apollinare in Classe, external view

View of the apse and the North side; the walls are made of large stone blocks.

Altar as "cippo": on the front a cross, with a monogram, is depicted between a couple of peacocks.

Detail of one side of a stone wellhead from Correr Museum (?), now at the "Fondaco dei Turchi" in Venice

Marble slab (altar front?), walled on the northern side of St. Mark's Cathedral in Venice, depicting the Throne of the Second Coming or Hetoimasia. It bears a double-armed cross and a lamb in a clipeus above, as a symbol of Jesus Christ. The Throne…

Detail of a marble slab walled on the side of St. Mark's Basilica, in Venice. The relief features two facing peacocks flanking a kantharos in the middle; a branch with two blooming tendrils springs out from the vase.

Detail of marble slab, decorated with two symmetric peacocks standing on a globe, with their tail wide open forming a sort of clipeus. The "clipei" are framed by acanthus tendrils. The slab is framed by a plain cornice.

Detail of a composite impost capital of Constantinopolitan provenance, from the Sacristy of St. Mark's Basilica

Impost capital with acanthus leaves

Impost capital with acanthus leaves and, on the short side, a central cross

Well curb, in the shape of composit capital, featuring acanthus leaves and a vase with flowers

High relief with scenes from the New Testament: Nativity and the Bathing of the Christ child

Relief with a female figure in the centre (Saint Agnes), between two sort of walls decorated with opus pavonaceum.

Funeral or celebratory stele with an inscription, representing a man riding a horse.

Two male figures stand in front of an architecture