145; a giant Minerva, No.

169; a Venus, No.

174; an Apollo, No.223.A very beautiful Pieta by Giovanni Bellini, painted under the influence of Duerer, should be sought and found.
The Bridge of Sighs, a little way upon which one may venture, is more interesting in romantic fancy than in fact, and its chief merit is to span very gracefully the gulf between the Palace and the Prison.

With the terrible cells of the Doges' Palace, to which we are about to descend, it has no connexion.

When Byron says, in the famous line beginning the fourth canto of "Childe Harold," I stood in Venice on the Bridge of Sighs, he probably meant that he stood in Venice on the Bridge of Straw (Ponte di Paglia) and contemplated the Bridge of Sighs.