Venice has nothing more satisfyingly ornate: richness without floridity.

But let no one think to know all its beauty until he has penetrated to the little chapel and stood before Mantegna's S.Sebastian, that great simple work of art by an intellectual master.

This noble painting, possibly the last from his brush, was found in Mantegna's studio after his death.

Notice the smoking candle-wick at the foot, and the motto which says that everything that is not of God is as smoke evanescent.
A steamboat station for passengers going towards the Rialto is opposite the Ca' d'Oro calle.

Then comes the garden of the Palazzo Pesaro, now the Paraguay consulate; then the Sagredo, an extremely ancient Gothic building with a beautiful window and balcony, now badly served by paint and stucco and shutters; and then another traghetto at the Campo S.
Sofia, with a vine ramping over its shelter.