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(Venice) The cathedral of Venice since 1807, S Marco is the most important example of Veneto-Byzantine art, fusing Byzantine influence with Romanesque experiments and Gothic innovations in a highly original manner. Despite centuries of rebuilding, alteration, and superimposition, the building has retained its feeling of coherence, mainly owing to the rich mosaic covering, which is subsumed into the architecture, transfiguring the interior structure and redefining the space in terms of colour. The church built to give the relics of St Mark (see Venice §I, 1) a worthy burial place was the first of three successive buildings on the same site. It was begun by Doge Giustiniano Partecipazio (reg 827–9) as a ducal chapel, an integral part of the seat of government, and was consecrated in 832 under Doge Giovanni I Partecipazio (reg 829–36). Not even the ground-plan is known for certain. Scholars have maintained that it was an aisled basilica with an apse, crypt, and portico, after the example of buildings in Ravenna; but studies by the excavator, ...