Myth Materialized: Thirteenth Century Additions to the West Façade of San Marco and their Value in Venetian History Making
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Abstract
In 1198, Pope Innocent III called for Latin Christians to once again take up arms and retake Jerusalem from the Muslims. Innocent III could never have predicted that instead, the Fourth Crusade would be rerouted to Constantinople at the whim of the Venetians and ultimately culminate in the bloody sacking of the city and establishment of a Latin kingdom which would stand until 1261.1 Given the shift in power following the Fourth Crusade, the Venetians needed to reconsider how they were represented to the rest of the world. The thirteenth century marked a period of mythogenesis for Venice in which Venetians spent considerable time focused on the establishment and continuance of a legitimate origin story for their beloved republic. To do so, the Venetians relied heavily on models from antiquity and the early Middle Ages to fine tune their origin myth during the thirteenth century. It can be argued that the thirteenth century additions to the west façade of San Marco, more specifically the set of four horses and the five mosaics above the main portals, provide visible evidence of this dedication to the past while also
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Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.006 | 0.015 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.005 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".