It represents "The Baptism of Christ," and must in its heyday have been very beautiful.

Christ stands at the edge of the water and the Baptist holds a little bowl--very different scene from that mosaic version in S.Mark's where Christ is half submerged.

It has a sky full of cherubs, delectable mountains and towns in the distance, and all Cima's sweetness; and when the picture cleaning millionaire, of whom I speak elsewhere, has done his work it will be a joy.

There is also a fine Bartolommeo Vivarini here, and the sacristan insists on your admiring a very ornate font which he says is by Sansovino.
As you leave, ask him the way to S.Giorgio degli Schiavoni, which is close by, and prepare to be very happy.
I have said something about the most beautiful spacious places in Venice--S.

Mark's, the Doges' Palace, the Scuola di S.Rocco, and so forth; we now come to what is, without question, the most fascinating small room in Venice.