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Picture
of the Week |
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We start this new section
where every week a different picture will be showcased.
Occasionally, there will be a second picture for you to
identify.
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The answer will be posted
the following week, but if you do not want to wait, you
can always e-mail me at:
sestiere@aloverofvenice.com (your e-mail address will not be published or shared) |
| John Ruskin had a very low esteem for the architecture of the
High Renaissance
and the Baroque, a sentiment that we do not share at
aloverofvenice. Here is what he has to say about the
façade of the Ospedaletto and other buildings of the
period that he calls the Grotesque Renaissance: About the Ospedaletto: "The most monstrous example of the Grotesque Renaissance which there is in Venice; the sculptures on its façade representing masses of diseased figures and swollen fruit." "It is almost worth devoting an hour to the successive examination of five buildings, as illustrative of the last degradation of the Renaissance. S. Moisè is almost clumsy, S. Maria Zobenigo the most impious, S. Eustachio the most ridiculous, the Ospedaletto the most monstrous, and the head at S. Maria Formosa the most foul." (from "The Stones of Venice," volume III). |
