On a big pillar close to this chapel is a Madonna with a votive rifle hung by it; but I have been unable to find its story.

It might be a moving one.
It is not detail, however lovely, for which one seeks S.Mark's, but general impressions, and these are inexhaustible.

It is a temple of beauty and mystery in which to loiter long, and, as I have said, just by the S.Liberale in the gallery of the right transept, I made my seat.
From this point one sees under the most favourable conditions the mosaic of the entry into Jerusalem; the choir; the choir screen with its pillars and saints; the two mysterious pulpits, beneath which children creep and play on great days; and all the miracle of the pavements.

From here one can follow the Mass and listen to the singing, undisturbed by the moving crowd.
S.Mark's is described by Ruskin as an illuminated missal in mosaic.

It is also a treasury of precious stones, for in addition to every known coloured stone that this earth of ours can produce, with which it is built and decorated and floored, it has the wonderful Pala d'oro, that sumptuous altar-piece of gold and silver and enamel which contains some six thousand jewels.