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Identifier: 10866333.5342.emory.edu
Title: Italy: a handbook for travellers. First Part (Nothern Italy)
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: Karl Baedeker (Firm)
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Publisher: Leipsic : K. Baedeker
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PALAZZO DUCAL PrimO Piano Secondo Piano Pal. of the Doges. VENICE. 42. Route. 261 tues of Hercules and Mercury, by Campagna. Over the door, Nup-tials of St. Catharine (with a portrait of Doge Franc. Dona) ; to theleft, Virgin in glory (with Doge Niccolo da Ponte), Adoration of theSaviour (with Doge Alvise Mocenigo), all by Jac. Tintoretto; overthe throne, a memorial picture of the Battle of Lepanto, *Christ inglory (below, Doge Venier, Venetia, St. Mark, St. Justina, etc.),by P. Veronese; opposite, Prayer of Doge Andrea Gritti to theVirgin, by Tintoretto. Ceiling-paintings (considered the finest inthe palace), Neptune and Mars, Faith, *Venetia on the globe withJustice and Peace, all by P. Veronese. The roof is entirely by Paul Veronese, and the traveller who reallyloves painting ought to get leave to come to this room whenever he choosesand should pass the sunny summer mornings there again and again ....He will no otherwise enter so deeply into the heart of Venice. — Ruskin. V. Sala
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