There is also a Filippino Lippi which one likes to find in Venice, where the prevailing art is so different from his.
One of the most charming things here is a little relief of the manger; as pretty a rendering as one could wish for.

Downstairs is the tomb of the great Jacopo Sansovino.
And now rises the imposing church of S.Maria della Salute which, although younger than most of the Venetian churches, has taken the next place to S.Mark's as an ecclesiastical symbol of the city.

To me it is a building attractive only when seen in its place as a Venetian detail; although it must always have the impressiveness of size and accumulation and the beauty that white stone in such an air as this can hardly escape.

Seen from the Grand Canal or from a window opposite, it is pretentious and an interloper, particularly if the slender and distinguished Gothic windows of the apse of S.Gregorio are also visible; seen from any distant enough spot, its dome and towers fall with equal naturalness into the majestic Venetian pageant of full light, or the fairy Venetian mirage of the crepuscle.
The church was decreed in 1630 as a thankoffering to the Virgin for staying the plague of that year.

Hence the name--S.