[A Wanderer in Venice by E.V. Lucas]@TWC D-Link bookA Wanderer in Venice CHAPTER XXI 10/21
One is to cross the Rialto bridge and join the stream which always fills the narrow busy calli that run parallel with the Grand Canal to the Frari.
The other is to leave this campo at the far end, at Goldoni's back, and join the stream which is always flowing backwards and forwards along the new Via Vittorio Emmanuele. [Illustration: S.CHRISTOPHER, S.JEROME AND S.AUGUSTINE FROM THE PAINTING BY GIOVANNI BELLINI _In the Church of S.Giov.
Crisostomo_] Let me describe both routes, beginning with the second.
A few yards after leaving the campo we come on the right to the little church of S. Giovanni Crisostomo where there are two unusually delightful pictures: a Sebastiano del Piombo and a Bellini, with a keen little sacristan who enjoys displaying their beauties and places you in the best light.
The Bellini is his last signed work, and was painted when the old man was in his eighty-fifth year.
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