VENETIAN INDEX. BEDENTORE, CHURCH or THE, IL 376. esting
John
Bellinis,
and
also, in
33a
It contains three inter-
the sacristy, a most beau-
tiful Paul Veronese. REMER, CORTE DEL, house
in, n. 251. on the Grand Canal. Of the Grotesque REZZONICO, PALAZZO, Renaissance time, but less extravagant than usual. The best building raised in the time RIALTO, BRIDGE OF THE.
of the Grotesque Renaissance ; very noble in its simplicity, Note especially the in its proportions, and in its masonry. archstones rest on the butin which the oblique grand way safe, palpably both to the sense and of the Annunciation on the the note also sculpture eye southern side of it how beautifully arranged, so as to give more lightness and a grace to the arch the dove, flying
ments of the bridge, :
;
and thus the towards the Madonna, forming the keystone, whole action of the figures being parallel to the curve of the arch, while all the masonry is at right angles to it. Note, finally, one circumstance which gives peculiar firmness to the figure of the angel, and associates itself with the general expression of strength in the whole building ;
namely that the level, as if
sole of the
advanced foot
is set
perfectly
placed on the ground, instead of being thrown like a heron's, as in most modern figures of
back behind this kind.
The sculptures themselves are not good but these pieces The two figures on of feeling in them are very admirable. the other side, St. Mark and St. Theodore, are inferior, ;
all by the same sculptor, Girolamo Campagna. The bridge was built by Antonio da Ponte, in 1588. It was anciently of wocxl with a drawbridge in the centre, a
though
;
representation of "flinch may be seen in one of Carpacci&'s pictures at the Accademia delle Belle Arti and the traveller :
should observe that the interesting effect, both of this and the Bridge of Sighs, depends in great part on their both being more than bridges the one a covered passage, the other a row of shops, sustained on an arch. No such effect ;
can be produced merely bv +be masonry of the roadway it elf.