It represents the signs of the Zodiac with the addition, on the facet opposite the Dogana, of Christ blessing a child.

Facing S.Giorgio are Aquarius and Capricornus, facing the Lido are Pisces and Sagittarius.

Elsewhere are Justice on the Bull, the Moon in a boat with a Crab, and a Virgin reading to the Twins.
Above this capital, on the corner of the building itself, are the famous Adam and Eve, presiding over the keystone of the structure as over the human race.

It is a naive group, as the photograph shows, beneath the most tactful of trees, and it has no details of beauty; and yet, like its companions, the Judgment of Solomon and the Sin of Ham, it has a curious charm--due not a little perhaps to the softening effect of the winds and the rains.

High above our first parents is the Angel Michael.
The first capital after the corner (we are now proceeding down the Riva) has Tubal Cain the musician, Solomon, Priscian the grammarian, Aristotle the logician, Euclid the geometrician, and so forth, all named and all characteristically employed.
The second has heads of, I suppose, types.