Venice: Palazzo Ducale, detail of column
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Over the centuries, the Doge’s Palace has been restructured and restored countless times. Due to fires, structural failures and infiltrations on one hand, and new organizational requirements and...
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located at the gateway to the Palazzo Ducale above the bust of St. Mark, a sculpture of Justice with her sword and scales flanked by a pair of lions Filed under: Venice Tagged: architecture, art,...
View ArticleVenice: Palazzo Ducale; Statue of Archangel Raphael in corner above the...
On the corner of the Upper Loggia of the Doges’ Palace, St. Mark’s Square, Raphael looks sea-ward, and holds a scroll with a prayer, (in a rhymed Latin hexameter,) asking him to render the lagoon and...
View ArticleVenice: Palazzo Ducale; Drunkenness of Noah
The sculpture of the Drunkenness of Noah is located on the Lower Loggia on the corner leading to the Bridge of Sighs. This shot mainly shows the desired result of the lesson: Temperance. When we...
View ArticleVenice: View of Piazzetta di San Marco
Turning to the left at the end of the Libreria, on the end on the right had side, one crosses the open end of the Piazzetta marked by two large granite columns carrying symbols of the two patron...
View ArticleVenice: Palazzo Ducale, details from the loggia floor
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