It is the most beautiful campanile of all, and its inevitableness is such that did we not know the truth we should wonder if the six days of creation had not included an afternoon for the ordainment of such edifices.
It would need a Hans Andersen to describe the feelings of the other Venetian campaniles when S.Mark's tall column fell.

S.Giorgio's I imagine instantly took command, but no doubt there were other claimants to the throne.

I rather fancy that the Frari's had something to say, and S.Pietro in Castello's also, on account of his age and his early importance; but who could pay any serious attention at that time to a tower so pathetically out of the perpendicular as he now is?
The new campanile endeavours to reproduce the old faithfully, and it was found possible to utilize a little of the old material.

The figures of Venice on the east wall above the belfry canopy and Justice on the west are the ancient ones pieced together and made whole; the lions on the north and south sides are new.

The golden angel on the summit is the old one restored, with the novelty, to her, as to us, of being set on a pivot to act as a vane.