Why had a child’s rear emerged from a chiseled bucket in the church-shaped treasure-reliquary-censer of San Marco? In Venetian sources, this little church in the Procuratie treasury has been known as “ Ecclesiola di San Marco”, or little church of San Marco, since its arrival in Venice, that’s to say, apparently before 1282, when the first treasury inventory was taken.
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