The scene is fascinating in this frame; and one also discovers how very much askew the facade of S.
Mark's must be, for instead of seeing, immediately in front, the centre of the far end of the square, as most persons would expect, one sees Naya's photograph shop at the corner.
The Baptistery is notable for its mosaic biography of the Baptist, its noble font, and the beautiful mural tomb of Doge Andrea Dandolo.

Andrea, the last Doge to be buried within S.Mark's, was one of the greatest of them all.

His short reign of but ten years, 1343 to 1354, when he died aged only forty-six, was much troubled by war with the Genoese; but he succeeded in completing an alliance against the Turks and in finally suppressing Zara, and he wrote a history of Venice and revised its code of laws.

Petrarch, who was his intimate friend, described Andrea as "just, upright, full of zeal and of love for his country ...

erudite ...
wise, affable, and humane." His successor was the traitor Marino Faliero.