It was the custom once to decorate all facades in this way, but these are now almost the only ones that remain.
Now comes a very poor series of houses to the next rio, the Rio di Noale, the last being the Gussoni, or Grimani, with a nice courtyard seen through the door.

It was once decorated with frescoes by Tintoretto.

Looking along the Rio di Noale we see the Misericordia, and only a few yards up on the left is the Palazzo Giovanelli where Giorgione's "Tempest" may be seen.

At the other corner is the pretty little Palazzo Lezze with a terrace and much greenery, and then the massive but commonplace Boldu palace, adjoining a decayed building on whose fondamenta are piled gondola coverings belonging to the traghetto.
A fine carved column is at the corner of the calle, and next it the Palazzo Bonhomo, with two arches of a colonnade, a shrine and fondamenta.

Then a nice house with a tumbled garden, and in spring purple wistaria and red Judas-trees, and then the Rio S.Felice and the immense but unimpressive Palazzo Fontana, built possibly by no less an architect than the great Sansovino.