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Category:Pavement of Santa Maria and San Donato (Murano)

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One of the most impressive features of San Donato is the lavish, multicolored mosaic floor, made in the opus sectile and the opus tessellatum techniques. The central figural panel depicts a set of four great interlacing circles-well-known symbols of eternity and hence figures of the everlasting God who is beyond time and space. At the center of it, set like a jewel, a fifth circle bears a Latin inscription that reads: "In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, the year of our Lord 1141, the month of September, Indiction V." The inscription demonstrates that San Donato's tile floor was laid at the same time as that in the basilica di San Marco.

The mosaic floor measures over 500 square meters and is made of porphyry, serpentine, and other precious Mediterranean stones mixed with glass paste.

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