tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-86467609608914159062024-03-13T21:21:48.728+11:00Capturing Venice Capturing Venice/Capturing Paris http://www.blogger.com/profile/14033232922083621085noreply@blogger.comBlogger96125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8646760960891415906.post-31752002667925888272016-07-29T19:54:00.001+10:002016-07-29T19:54:34.538+10:00A corner of white marbled beauty...Scuola Grande di San Teodoro and Chiesa San Salvador, San Marco<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As you walk from Campo San Bartolomeo (near the Rialto bridge), stop right here on the </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">corner of the Salizzada San Teodoro and Calle Lovo</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, and stand still. </span><br />
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Capturing Venice/Capturing Paris http://www.blogger.com/profile/14033232922083621085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8646760960891415906.post-54401958189851234662016-06-12T14:18:00.000+10:002016-06-12T14:18:33.019+10:00Marforio's dragon and his umbrellas in Marzaria Due Aprile, San Marco<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helveticaneue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16.25px;">I think many visitors to Venice will remember, if only subliminally, this landmark on that well-trodden route between the Rialto bridge to the Piazza San Marco, near the church of San Salvador.</span></span><br />
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Capturing Venice/Capturing Paris http://www.blogger.com/profile/14033232922083621085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8646760960891415906.post-25403873172214311802016-06-07T16:48:00.000+10:002016-06-07T16:48:02.641+10:00Scala del Bovolo - I never thought I'd climb these stairs!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I've been coming to visit this spot, the Scala del Bovolo (Snail's Staircase) for almost twenty years. <br />
I'd stand outside the gates and look longingly up that extraordinary staircase. But I'd long given up hope that I'd ever see the inside of this building, let alone climb those stairs. And then, just as I was preparing to leave for Venice...I noticed that this site had finally opened to the public. Hoorah!<br />
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The view from the top of the 'snail' is intimate - I felt as though I could almost touch the Campanile in the Piazza San Marco or reach for that dear, familiar roof line of the Basilica di San Marco with its fat domes.</div>
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Visiting the Scale del Bovolo was a delight - it was so much quieter than climbing the Campanile in Piazza San Marco...no queues, no crowds, no jostling for position. I had this little <i>belvedere</i> all to myself for several minutes.</div>
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Many guidebooks seem describe the snail like form of the staircase as typical of Venice...I'd love to know where else this exists or existed, as I can't recall ever seeing it elsewhere in Venice. If you know anything further, please drop me a line in the comments box or via Capturing Venice's social media pages. I'd love to hear from you.<br />
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<br />Capturing Venice/Capturing Paris http://www.blogger.com/profile/14033232922083621085noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8646760960891415906.post-60430554140397048892016-06-03T10:20:00.001+10:002016-06-03T10:20:08.798+10:00Landing at Marco Polo Venezia There is something magic about this name: 'MARCO POLO, VENEZIA'.<br />
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I get such a kick of delight when I use the code 'VCE' to make an airline booking, and then I spend weeks and months gloating over it on my travel itinerary. And then the day of departure finally arrives and I get to see those three letters printed on my boarding pass and attached to my bag...<br />
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And then the anticipation of the arrival at Marco Polo Venice... <br />
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On this occasion, the fog made the arrival somewhat hazy. But knowing Venice was down there and tracing the line of the rail and road bridge into Venice...that really was special.<br />
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This is what Venetian writer, Paolo Barbaro, says about landing in Venice in <i>Venice Revealed</i>:<br />
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"<i>I look down on it again myself: Venice, mysteriously interrogatory and enchanted, tranquil and troubled. Pathetic, motionless, delicate - sailing, maybe...There is a moment of silence in the airplane, our fraction of eternity. Japanese, Brazilians, Venetians...who are we, really, in here, but a group of individuals, big and little, young and old, spying on the flower of stone in the sea from on high?".</i><br />
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Happy Friday!Capturing Venice/Capturing Paris http://www.blogger.com/profile/14033232922083621085noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8646760960891415906.post-15026950665945698352016-05-29T13:44:00.001+10:002016-05-29T13:44:45.548+10:00Yep, it's been a long time...Hello world!<br />
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It's been a really long time since I've felt like writing...But here I am again. </div>
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I've even dropped into Venice for a week-long trip that went way too fast.</div>
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And now I can feel that my heart is beating again.</div>
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I have so many new photos and discoveries to share with you. </div>
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Let's start with this one: captured on the Alilaguna boat as it motored from Marco Polo airport down the Grand Canal as dusk fell over my beloved city. </div>
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I managed to take the long road when I booked my trip, so it had taken me about 40 hours to get from Sydney to Venice. I was tired and crumpled. But - oh the joy of landing in Venice. </div>
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I love how the Alilaguna speeds up as it exits the airport and the freshness of the lagoon air and wind after many hours on an airplane. I love that thump of the <i>motoscafo</i> on the waves. I love putting my head up to the window and feeling the spray on my face. And then that stately journey down the Grand Canal toward San Marco...</div>
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Just looking at this photo has my feet wanting to run back to Venice. </div>
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A big thank you to all of you, my dear readers for staying the course with me. It's good to be back. It's good to see you again ❤️. </div>
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Capturing Venice/Capturing Paris http://www.blogger.com/profile/14033232922083621085noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8646760960891415906.post-87886103169510976822014-10-20T21:49:00.000+11:002014-10-20T21:49:47.042+11:00Looking up at San Vidal<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I wonder how many times I've walked past this sculpture of San Vidal (San Vitale), on my way to and from the Accademia bridge?</span><br />
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<br />Capturing Venice/Capturing Paris http://www.blogger.com/profile/14033232922083621085noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8646760960891415906.post-53570721397267178122014-10-03T16:09:00.002+10:002014-10-03T16:09:54.196+10:00Corte Veniera, Castello near San Zanipolo<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When I was last in Venice, I was trying to document all the places where I walked with as many photos as possible, including of the related <i>nizioletti </i>- so called 'little sheets' of white labels painted with street names and framed by a thick black border.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On my first morning, I walked from my accommodation at Alloggi Barbaria (you can read Fausto's terrific blog <a href="http://www.alloggibarbaria.it/" target="_blank">here</a>) to nearby Campo San Zanipolo to the Rosa Salva bar for a warm pastry and excellent coffee and then explored the Corte Veniera nearby. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here's a glimpse of the Corte Veniera - it ends in a canal and has its own covered well-head. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>Capturing Venice/Capturing Paris http://www.blogger.com/profile/14033232922083621085noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8646760960891415906.post-49702077630559184072014-08-28T20:57:00.000+10:002014-08-29T12:11:09.302+10:00Calle del Verrocchio, Castello<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I can't resist Verrocchio's statue of <i>condottiere</i> Bartolomeo Colleoni (you can read more about this mercenary and his statue <a href="http://capturingvenice.blogspot.com.au/2014/06/bartolomeo-colleoni.html" target="_blank">here</a>). I always enjoy looking up the horse, and enjoying the colours of the marble plinth.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I really like trying to see as much of the detail of the horse as I can, from my vantage point at ground level (and I'm not very tall, so I'm sadly quite close to ground level!).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I took a peek at the nearby </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Calle del Verrocchio to see what there was to see...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It was quite residential and quiet...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I turned my back on the calle, and headed back to toward the campo and looked up to this fantastic view of Colleoni's statue.</span><br />
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<br />Capturing Venice/Capturing Paris http://www.blogger.com/profile/14033232922083621085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8646760960891415906.post-5711389504895035822014-08-19T16:15:00.000+10:002014-08-19T16:15:06.390+10:00A lion and his little friend - Scuola Grande di San Marco<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I was taken by the sight of this little pigeon and his fierce friend sitting companionably together on the facade of the Scuola Grande di San Marco, now Venice's hospital.</span><br />
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<br />Capturing Venice/Capturing Paris http://www.blogger.com/profile/14033232922083621085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8646760960891415906.post-3835724572997628422014-08-08T17:00:00.000+10:002014-08-08T17:00:01.853+10:00View from the Accademia bridge<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Whenever I stand on the Accademia bridge, the first object that my eye will seek out is the dear, familiar, flat roofline of the Palazzo Venier dei Leoni, the 'unfinished palazzo' and home of my beloved Peggy Guggenheim Collection.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Once I've had my fill, I'll let my attention wander to the graceful dome of the Basilica della Salute and the Dogana del Mar beyond.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And finally, I'll notice the brightly coloured patterns of the typically Venetian mooring posts.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>Capturing Venice/Capturing Paris http://www.blogger.com/profile/14033232922083621085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8646760960891415906.post-92229990597565863452014-08-06T20:49:00.002+10:002014-08-06T20:49:43.015+10:00"How I love our sweet Gothics" (Paolo Barbaro, Venice Revealed)"<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">How I love our sweet Gothics, which have so little true Gothic about them. They are not to be found in such aggregate anywhere else, but in this city they turn up everywhere, with their double lancet windows, their friezes, their great front doors, and their eaves worked in stone as if it were lace".</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Accanto quel gotico-gentile, molto poco gotico, introvabile in ogni altro aggregato umano, che qui torna dappertutto tra bifore, fregi, portoni, gronde lavorate come merletti di pietra bianca".</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Paolo Barbaro, <i>Venice Revealed/ Venezia La Citta Ritrovata</i></span><br />
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<br />Capturing Venice/Capturing Paris http://www.blogger.com/profile/14033232922083621085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8646760960891415906.post-18737449007156408732014-08-05T18:40:00.002+10:002014-08-05T18:40:24.063+10:00Anyone for a biscuit?<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Perhaps with a cup of tea? Or vin santo????</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>Capturing Venice/Capturing Paris http://www.blogger.com/profile/14033232922083621085noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8646760960891415906.post-85055883662585851512014-08-02T20:17:00.000+10:002014-08-02T20:17:10.071+10:00A working city, just like any other<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When you stand on the summit of the Accademia bridge, taking in that iconic view down the Grand Canal towards the Basilica della Salute and the Dogana del Mar, it's easy to forget that you're not simply standing in a beautiful tableaux, but standing in a working city.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Look down below: those people on the vaporetti...some of them might actually be locals, simply trying to do their daily shopping, collect their children or get to work, despite the thronging of tourists and day-trippers all around them. Look at those little vessels racing underneath you...perhaps there is a police boat, or a fire boat, on its way to an emergency.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And look at this boat, prosaically ferrying television sets and wicker chairs under the watchful eager gaze of this tourist.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>Capturing Venice/Capturing Paris http://www.blogger.com/profile/14033232922083621085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8646760960891415906.post-68026241939529117012014-07-28T22:22:00.001+10:002014-07-28T22:22:07.715+10:00That sweet bend of the Grand Canal<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There are so many places in Venice that squeeze my heart. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It took me some years to find such a spot on the Grand Canal - which always seemed so public, so much 'on-view', too well-known and well-traversed to be personal for <i>me</i>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But some years ago I was walking around the Rialto, in that sheltered part where the Naranzaria and Il Bancogiro operate, and I stopped suddenly and looked around - and it was like seeing that familiar curve of the Rialto bridge for the very first time...that short distance across to the other side of the Rialto bridge, the many lives hurrying by... </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And just like that - this sweet 'S' bend of the Grand Canal has become personal and beloved for me. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is what it looked like heading down the Grand Canal on a vaporetto:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>Capturing Venice/Capturing Paris http://www.blogger.com/profile/14033232922083621085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8646760960891415906.post-32451355310446615392014-07-26T17:26:00.000+10:002014-07-26T17:26:41.997+10:00The grace of a gondola<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I stood on the summit of the Accademia bridge, and drank in that iconic view of the Grand Canal, sweeping down towards the serene, welcoming beauty of the Salute. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The sun was shining, and I listened to the chatter of other tourists sweeping up and down the broad steps of the bridge, stopping to admire, and photograph and smile. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I lazily scanned the traffic passing beneath the bridge and in the distance, I enjoyed watching the skill of the gondolier as he gracefully steered his elegant little black vessel across the canal.</span><br />
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<br />Capturing Venice/Capturing Paris http://www.blogger.com/profile/14033232922083621085noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8646760960891415906.post-29027663162272584692014-07-21T17:30:00.000+10:002014-07-21T17:30:02.755+10:00Memorial to Sebastiano Venier in Campo Santa Maria Formosa<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This unassuming facade is that of Palazzetto Venier (dated circa 1450-70) in Campo Santa Maria Formosa.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Is my memory correct - I feel like Farmacia dell'Orso on the ground level has been there for almost twenty years?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On the facade is memorial plaque to Sebastiano Venier, the commander of the Venetian fleet at the Battle of Lepanto. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This famous battle took place on 7 October 1571 in the Gulf of Corinth, off the coast of Greece. It was a battle between the combined Christian forces of the Republic of Venice (who provided 109 galleys and 5,000 soldiers), the Spanish Empire (who largely funded the battle and provided 56 galleys), the Republic of Genoa (with 27 galleys), the Pope (with seven galleys) and the Order of St Stephen, Duchy of Savoy and Knights of Malta (each of whom provided three galleys). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Christians set off for the battle from Messina in Sicily, and the Turks from Lepanto. After seven hours of fighting, the Christians prevailed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Christian forces were fighting for the security of maritime trade in the Mediterranean and the security of Christianity in continental Europe against the Ottoman Empire. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sebastiano Venier returned victorious and was later appointed Doge of Venice from June 1577 - March 1578.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>Capturing Venice/Capturing Paris http://www.blogger.com/profile/14033232922083621085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8646760960891415906.post-15911528816737231602014-07-18T20:00:00.000+10:002014-07-18T20:00:02.514+10:00Palazzo Donà in Campo Santa Maria Formosa<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">I always like to stand in the middle
of the square and admire its gorgeous Gothic windows (the building dates from
around 1460). </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">I particularly enjoy
looking at its portal containing an elaborate Renaissance era shield supported
by baby </span><i style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">putti</i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here's closer look at that tympanum:</span><br />
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Capturing Venice/Capturing Paris http://www.blogger.com/profile/14033232922083621085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8646760960891415906.post-83151761645604551332014-07-16T19:10:00.000+10:002014-07-16T19:10:00.265+10:00Campo Santa Maria Formosa<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One of the largest and liveliest of the Venice's many campi is Campo Santa Maria Formosa. The church has two facades - this one, facing the campo, has a broad plain facade which was built in 1604.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The campanile was built from 1611 - 1688, and in between is a plain, box-like building, now an oratorio. It was originally home to Scuola de la Purifacazione (1601) which later combined with the Scuola dei Fruttaroli in 1684.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In the background, to the left of the church, is the Renaissance Palazzo Malipiero Trevisan.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The palazzo was once home to Doge Pasqual Malipiero, the 66th Doge of Venice (serving from October 1457 to his death in May 1462). The building is now a hotel.</span><br />
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Capturing Venice/Capturing Paris http://www.blogger.com/profile/14033232922083621085noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8646760960891415906.post-41041163574456043162014-07-13T16:46:00.000+10:002014-07-13T16:46:42.048+10:00Calle del Paradiso, Castello<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">One morning, after downing a delicious
coffee and warm, sweet pastry at Rosa Salva (ok, so maybe it was two of each), we headed off
into the streets of Venice for another day of walking and looking. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">We walked across the Ponte dei Preti off the
Campo Santa Maria Formosa and looked up to find this arch – the Arco del
Paradiso.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: right;"><i>Nizioletto - Ponte dei Preti near Campo Santa Maria Formosa</i></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The arch dates from the early 15</span><sup style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">th</sup><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">century and commemorates the marriage between a Foscari and a Mocenigo, and bears both family’s arms as well as a relief of the Madonna della Misericordia. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Twenty-six houses in this calle – the Calle del Paradiso – formed part of the marriage settlement. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The calle itself is one of the best preserved medieval streets in Venice.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The narrow, short street comprises two parallel blocks, joined at the east end by the Arco del Paradiso. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The ground floor was intended for shops and workshops, with a single storey of accommodation above, supported by</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span><i style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">barbacani</i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And another view of the <i>barbacani</i> and the street signs:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">According to Richard Goy’s trusty </span><i style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Venice. An Architectural Guide</i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">, the
section toward the bridge contains some 13</span><sup style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">th</sup><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> century material as
well as later medieval parts, whilst the section of the street toward the
Salizzada San Lio is largely 16</span><sup style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">th</sup><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> century.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Toward the Salizzada San Lio end of
the street is one of Venice’s many fine bookshops. This one, Editrice Filippi, specializes in
hard-to-find Venice titles in Italian and other languages. I’ve spent many happy hours examining its
shop windows and deciding what other piece of clothing I can jettison in favour
of another tome. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-keUWl74mifY/U7ANxwvK82I/AAAAAAAAA60/Uu7PxdSSa3M/s1600/Window+bookshop+Calle+del+Paradiso.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Editrice Filippi shop window, Calle del Paradiso, Castello Venice capturingvenice.blogspot.com" border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-keUWl74mifY/U7ANxwvK82I/AAAAAAAAA60/Uu7PxdSSa3M/s1600/Window+bookshop+Calle+del+Paradiso.jpg" height="426" title="Editrice Filippi shop window, Calle del Paradiso, Castello Venice capturingvenice.blogspot.com" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: right;"><i>Shop window of Editrice Filippi, Calle del Paradiso, Castello</i></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">On my last visit to Venice, we
travelled to eight cities in three weeks, each of us carrying one small cabin
bag on wheels. I regretfully decided there
was no way I could fit Alvise Zorzi’s comprehensive, gorgeously illustrated <i>Venezia Scomparsa </i>in my small bag, nor
nonchalantly waltz through check-in with such a heavy book in my luggage. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Luckily, the bookshop kindly posted it to me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
Capturing Venice/Capturing Paris http://www.blogger.com/profile/14033232922083621085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8646760960891415906.post-12525353216597526542014-07-07T17:00:00.000+10:002014-07-07T17:00:03.542+10:00Sotoportego de la Corte Nova, Castello<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">What I love about walking around
Venice, is that you just never know what you’re going to stumble upon next.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">One morning, walking from near Campo
San Zanipolo towards the Arsenale, we wandered down a narrow alley. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">I was taken by the nizioletto on the wall: ‘Calle
Zorzi’, and was wondering if the name of the alley has anything to do with the
family of Venetian historian and author, Alvise Zorzi.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-IcVstmTY8EI/U66O5xYZ_TI/AAAAAAAAA44/uFt57vAb__4/s1600/Courtyard+of+the+Virgin+5+nizioletto+Calle+Zorzi.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="nizioletto street sign in Venice capturingvenice.blogspot.com" border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-IcVstmTY8EI/U66O5xYZ_TI/AAAAAAAAA44/uFt57vAb__4/s1600/Courtyard+of+the+Virgin+5+nizioletto+Calle+Zorzi.jpg" height="440" title="nizioletto street sign in Venice capturingvenice.blogspot.com" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: right;"><i>Nizioletto marking the Calle Zorzi, Castello</i></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Distracted, I almost tripped when I
saw this plaque above the <i>sotoportego</i>
that we were approaching:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hsvwBe-ZRMg/U66PNOwd-5I/AAAAAAAAA5A/MBBm26qYDbQ/s1600/Courtyard+of+the+Virgin2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Sotoportego de la Corte Nova Castello Venice capturingvenice.blogspot.com" border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hsvwBe-ZRMg/U66PNOwd-5I/AAAAAAAAA5A/MBBm26qYDbQ/s1600/Courtyard+of+the+Virgin2.jpg" height="426" title="Sotoportego de la Corte Nova Castello Venice capturingvenice.blogspot.com" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: right;"><i>Approaching the Sotoportego de la Corte Nova, Castello</i></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">We stopped to decipher the message
inside the lunette:</span></div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-R3Vf2Hk4diY/U66PoF2L2nI/AAAAAAAAA5I/LHVZ-5jF6iU/s1600/Courtyard+of+the+Virgin.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Sotoportego de la Corte Nova Castello Venice capturingvenice.blogspot.com" border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-R3Vf2Hk4diY/U66PoF2L2nI/AAAAAAAAA5I/LHVZ-5jF6iU/s1600/Courtyard+of+the+Virgin.jpg" height="426" title="Sotoportego de la Corte Nova Castello Venice capturingvenice.blogspot.com" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: right;"><i>Sotoportego de la Corte Nova, Castello </i></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">I remembered reading about this site
in Thomas Jonglez and Paola Zoffoli’s fantastic guide, <i>Secret Venice</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">During the plague of 1630 (which
killed over 50,000 Venetians), a local girl, Giovanna, urged her neighbours to
keep their faith. She drew a picture of
the Virgin together with San Rocco (patron saint of the plague), Santo
Sebastiano and San Lorenzo (protectors against epidemics), placed it in this
<i>sotoportego</i> and encouraged her neighbours to gather each day for prayer. The inhabitants of the courtyard were spared.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Here’s a closer look inside the
chapel:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-AbTLLJq7qKE/U66P85ZmqaI/AAAAAAAAA5U/Ym9sYzupE1I/s1600/Courtyard+of+the+Virgin4+inside.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Sotoportego de la Corte Nova Castello Venice capturingvenice.blogspot.com" border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-AbTLLJq7qKE/U66P85ZmqaI/AAAAAAAAA5U/Ym9sYzupE1I/s1600/Courtyard+of+the+Virgin4+inside.jpg" height="640" title="Sotoportego de la Corte Nova Castello Venice capturingvenice.blogspot.com" width="426" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: right;"><i>Sotoportego de la Corte Nova, Castello </i></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">A slab of red marble from Verona was
installed in the floor of the chapel to commemorate the miracle.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Look at the handsome carved
ceiling:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-cVPlM75bJiY/U66QCGXz-kI/AAAAAAAAA5c/xbzJ3LrP3QA/s1600/Courtyard+of+the+Virgin3+inside.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Sotoportego de la Corte Nova Castello Venice capturingvenice.blogspot.com" border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-cVPlM75bJiY/U66QCGXz-kI/AAAAAAAAA5c/xbzJ3LrP3QA/s1600/Courtyard+of+the+Virgin3+inside.jpg" height="640" title="Sotoportego de la Corte Nova Castello Venice capturingvenice.blogspot.com" width="426" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: right;"><i>Sotoportego de la Corte Nova, Castello</i></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Apparently, during WWI, the residents
of the courtyard again invoked the intercession of the Virgin to spare them
from enemy bombing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">I felt like I’d taken a step back in
time for a few moments as I stood inside the chapel, thinking of the people who
had prayed for their very lives in this spot and lived through terror: from the
plague in the 17<sup>th</sup> century to hellishness of war in modern
times. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">It was a moving and slightly eerie
experience. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">We stepped back into the
sunshine and stopped to admire its opposite entry:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-CISl5Wxn55I/U66QH2yxS_I/AAAAAAAAA5k/fshPlDSuJp8/s1600/Courtyard+of+the+Virgin6.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Sotoportego de la Corte Nova Castello Venice capturingvenice.blogspot.com" border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-CISl5Wxn55I/U66QH2yxS_I/AAAAAAAAA5k/fshPlDSuJp8/s1600/Courtyard+of+the+Virgin6.jpg" height="640" title="Sotoportego de la Corte Nova Castello Venice capturingvenice.blogspot.com" width="426" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: right;"><i>Sotoportego de la Corte Nova, Castello </i></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">And then, we turned, back to the present-day to continue on our
way through the ordinary, every-day streets of Venice.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: right;"><i>Back into the streets of Venice...</i></td></tr>
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Capturing Venice/Capturing Paris http://www.blogger.com/profile/14033232922083621085noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8646760960891415906.post-88131487557931210042014-07-05T17:00:00.001+10:002014-07-05T17:00:06.495+10:00Examining the facade of the Scuola Grande di San Marco <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Even partially covered in scaffolding, the Renaissance marble facade of Venice's hospital, in the former Scuola di San Marco, is extraordinary.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: right;"><i>Taking in the facade of the Scuola Grande di San Marco in Castello</i></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It was harder to see the imperious lions carved in the alcoves on the lower portion of the building, as they were barricaded off during the construction works:</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: right;"><i>Detail of the facade of the Scuola Grande di San Marco</i></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And it wasn't until I came home to Australia, and was properly reviewing my photos from the trip, that I fully appreciated the sumptuousness, the richness of the carving, decoration and coloured marbling of this gorgeous building.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I noticed how smaller lion heads are carved into the top portions of the facade:</span><br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Yr5Hfq7mDD0/U652wGmPWVI/AAAAAAAAA3s/-Aq4VMHNuGc/s1600/Small+lion+heads+of+Scuola+di+San+Marco.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Scuola Grande di San Marco, Venice capturingvenice.blogspot.com" border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Yr5Hfq7mDD0/U652wGmPWVI/AAAAAAAAA3s/-Aq4VMHNuGc/s1600/Small+lion+heads+of+Scuola+di+San+Marco.jpg" height="640" title="Scuola Grande di San Marco, Venice capturingvenice.blogspot.com" width="550" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: right;"><i>The small lion heads adorning the Scuola Grande di San Marco</i></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And then I enjoyed the triumphant lion that crowns the facade. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I also really like that angel with her hands held together in prayer, looking up to the sky, on the top right hand side of the photo:</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: right;"><i>Top of the facade of the Scuola di San Marco, Castello</i></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And then I let my eyes roam south, to enjoy the colour of the marble, the statuary and rich carving in the main part of the facade:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>Capturing Venice/Capturing Paris http://www.blogger.com/profile/14033232922083621085noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8646760960891415906.post-69767799159328405262014-07-02T16:48:00.000+10:002014-07-02T16:48:05.664+10:00Looking up the Scuola Grande di San Marco<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Founded in 1260, the Scuola Grande di San Marco was one of Venice’s original
three scuole (you can read more about the <em>scuole</em> <a href="http://capturingvenice.blogspot.com.au/2014/05/your-first-visit-to-venice-suggested_19.html" target="_blank">here</a>).</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It was established in Santa Croce, and later
moved to its present site near the church of Santi Giovanni e Paolo.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: right;"><i>Facade of the Scuola Grande di San Marco, Castello</i></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In 1437, the Confraternity of San Marco built its new headquarters, but this
structure was destroyed by fire in 1485.
It was re-built from 1487 – to the mid 1490s by Pietro Lombardo who
began the lower hall and façade.
Lombardo was dismissed to be replaced by Mauro Codussi who completed
upper façade and upper hall from 1490, and was responsible for the interior
double-branch staircase.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you’ve visited the Accademia Galleries, you’ll remember seeing Tintoretto’s
<i>Miracle of St Mark</i> and <i>St Mark’s Body Brought to Venice</i> – both were originally
housed in this scuola together with <i>The finding of the body of St Mark</i> which is now in the Brera in Milan.</span><br />
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Venice’s hospital to this day.</span>Capturing Venice/Capturing Paris http://www.blogger.com/profile/14033232922083621085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8646760960891415906.post-87647928807192521082014-06-30T22:53:00.001+10:002014-07-13T17:11:04.284+10:00Bartolomeo Colleoni<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My first encounter with a <i>condottiere</i> was in Padova when I first met Donatello's stunning equestrian monument to Gattamelata outside the Basilica di San Antonio. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A condottiere is the leader of band of mercenaries, who were hired by the various Italian states to fight one another from the mid 14th century to the 16th century. </span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 22.399999618530273px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;">I</span> was struck first by Donatello's modelling of the celebrated mercenary, and then by that mercenary's name - 'The Honey Cat'. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Say it aloud: </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Gattamelata".</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Venice's monument to the mercenary Bartolomeo Colleoni is here in Campo San Zanipolo, outside the former Scuola Grande di San Marco and the Gothic cathedral of SS Giovanni e Paolo. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Colleoni began his career in the 15th century in Venice's army (serving under Gattamelata). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He later defected to Milan, where he was jailed, then escaped to re-enlist in the Venetian army.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The final years of his career were notably peaceful in Venetian history, so he spent his middle years in relative luxury and wealth. When he died in 1475, he bequeathed 700,000 ducats to the Venetian state, on the proviso that it had to erect a monument in his honour in front of San Marco.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Those wily Venetian bureaucrats took Colleoni's will to mean that he wanted his monument to be placed in front of the Scuola di San Marco, not the Basilica di San Marco. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Andrea Verrocchio was awarded the commission in 1481, but after commencing work on the equestrian part of the monument, he heard rumours that another artist was being courted to produce the rider. Enraged, he smashed his horse and returned to Florence. He was invited back to start afresh but died in June 1488 before the work was completed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Alessandro Leopardi was then hired to complete the monument and the high plinth on which it stands. Leopardi took the name 'del Cavallo' and signed his name to the horse and the plinth. </span><br />
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