Zara, I may mention, had very badly the habit of capture: this was the eighth time it had fallen.

Tintoretto is the painter, and it is one of his best historical works.

The great sea-fight picture on the right wall represents another battle of Lepanto, a later engagement than Venier's; the painter is Andrea Vicentino, who has depicted himself as the figure in the water; while in another naval battle scene, in the Dardanelles, the painter, Pietro Liberi, is the fat naked slave with a poniard.

For the rest the guide-book should be consulted.

The balcony of the room, which juts over the Piazzetta, is rarely accessible; but if it is open one should tarry there for the fine view of Sansovino's Old Library.
The second set of showrooms (which require the expenditure of another lira)--the oldest rooms in the palace--constitute the Archaeological Museum.