[A Wanderer in Venice by E.V. Lucas]@TWC D-Link bookA Wanderer in Venice CHAPTER VIII 10/16
In the outer sacristy the kneeling figure of Doge Agostino Barbarigo should be looked for. The Salute in Guardi's day seems to have had the most entrancing light blue curtains at its main entrance, if we may take the artist as our authority.
See No.
2098 in the National Gallery, and also No.
503 at the Wallace collection.
But now only a tiny side door is opened. [Illustration: THE MARRIAGE AT CANA FROM THE PAINTING BY TINTORETTO _In the Church of the Salute_] A steamboat station, used almost wholly by visitors, is here, and then a canal, and then the fourteenth-century abbey of S.Gregorio, whose cloisters now form an antiquity store and whose severe and simple apse is such a rebuke to Longhena's Renaissance floridity.
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