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The portal of the Scuola Grande di San Marco: the graffiti are on the jambs, in the lower part
The portal of the Scuola Grande di San Marco: the graffiti are on the jambs, in the lower part Photo: Wolfgang Moroder, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0

The jambs of this portal are full of marks, and they were not made by one person alone. The façade dates from the end of the 15th century, rebuilt after the fire of 1485, but the stones went on collecting carvings for centuries, from different hands and in different periods.

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