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A Wanderer in Venice

CHAPTER XXII
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She was subsequently canonized.
The other two and hardly distinguishable paintings are "The Presentation of Christ in the Temple" and "The Assumption of the Virgin." Now we ascend the staircase, on which is a beautiful "Annunciation" by Titian, strangely unlike Tintoretto's version below.

Here the Virgin kneels before her desk, expectant, and the angel sails quietly in with a lily.

The picture is less dramatic and more sympathetic; but personally I should never go to Venice for an "Annunciation" at all.

Here also is Tintoretto's "Visitation," but it is not easily seen.
The upper hall is magnificent, but before we examine it let us proceed with the Tintorettos.

In "The Adoration of the Shepherds," in the far left-hand corner as one enters, there is an excellent example of the painter's homeliness.


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