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Charles Davis, Byzantine Relief Icons in Venice and along the Adriatic Coast: Orants and other images of the Mother of God, Munich: fondamentaARTE, 2006. This monograph discusses in detail all the Byzantine relief icons found in the Basilica of San Marco in Venice and treats the other Byzantine relief icons once or still found in Italy. A 'Handlist of Venetian and Adriatic Works'provides a detailed guide to around 45 relief icons found in Venice and the Adriatic region, constituting a corpus of these works.