[A Wanderer in Venice by E.V. Lucas]@TWC D-Link bookA Wanderer in Venice CHAPTER XI 5/20
It is a huge place, now in part empty, with a pretty cable design at the corner.
Next, a shady green garden and an attractive little house with a tiny roof loggia and terrace; then a yellow stucco house with a little portico under it, and then the Palazzo Gritti, now decayed and commonplace.
A little house with a dog in relief on it and a pretty colonnade and fondamenta, and then the Palazzo Martinengo, or Mandelli, with that very rare thing in Venice, a public clock on the roof, and a garden. And so we reach the shabby S.Marcuola, her campo, traghetto, and steamer station.
S.Marcuola, whose facade, having never been finished, is most ragged and miserable, is a poor man's church, visited by strangers for its early Titian and a "Last Supper" by Tintoretto.
The Titian, which is dark and grimy, is quite pleasing, the infant Christ, who stands between S.Andrew and S.Catherine on a little pedestal, being very real and Venetian.
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