This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1913 Excerpt: ... and dreary prison cells, whose walls might add much to the unwritten history of Venice if they could speak. The Beautiful Churches of Venice. Venice, like most Italian cities, is rich in Catholic churches. In addition to St Mark and the Four Plague Churches there are others--the Friars' particularly, but the churches ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1913 Excerpt: ... and dreary prison cells, whose walls might add much to the unwritten history of Venice if they could speak. The Beautiful Churches of Venice. Venice, like most Italian cities, is rich in Catholic churches. In addition to St Mark and the Four Plague Churches there are others--the Friars' particularly, but the churches we visited and the most beautiful are St Mark, San Sebastian, (a plague church, ) Madonna della Salute (another plague church) and the Friars' Church. They are all beautiful, wonderfully so. They could not now be built in Venice. In one of the plague churches (San Rocco) Robusti, a fine artist, worked for eighteen years on the paintings. At the Cathedral of Madonna della Salute the decorations are by Tintoretto and the three main ceiling pictures are by the great Titian. Imagine a series of paintings by one of the world's greatest artists across the entire width of the hall of the House of Representatives and you have a faint idea of what Titian did in this one church. These Venetion artists, Tintoretto, Veronese, Titian and Cornova, the sculptor, must have been prodigious workers from the amount of their work left in Venice alone. In the Friars' Church, aside from the beautiful tombs and altars, the things worth remembering are the tomb of Canova and the Madonna (Friars') Bellini, Madonna of the Pesaro family by Titian. These two wonderful f-rtists contributed much to the decoration of this picturesque church. We finally visited the Jesuit Church, in which the decorative work is largely done with marble. Green marble is inlaid in white, effecting a most attractice finish. Here, too, there were many exceptional paintings. The church is the work of the seventeenth century. people at Rome seem to give most credit to Michael Angelo for the boauty ...
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