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certainly unworthy of the master, and in great part probably never seen by him.¹

CATTARINA, CHURCH OF ST., said to contain a chef-d’ œuvre of Paul Veronese, the “Marriage of St. Catherine.”² I have not seen it.

CAVALLI, PALAZZO, opposite the Academy of Arts. An imposing pile, on the Grand Canal, of Renaissance Gothic, but of little merit in the details; and the effect of its traceries has been of late destroyed by the fittings of modern external blinds. Its balconies are good, of the later Gothic type.³ See “BARBARO.”

CAVALLI, PALAZZO, next the Casa Grimani (or Post-Office),⁴ but on the other side of the narrow canal. Good Gothic, founded on the Ducal Palace, circa 1380. The capitals of the first story are remarkably rich in the deep fillets at the necks. The crests, heads of sea-horses, inserted between the windows, appear to be later, but are very fine of their kind.

CICOGNA, PALAZZO, at San Sebastiano, X. 309, XI. Appendix 10 (6).

CLEMENTE, CHURCH OF ST. On an island to the south of Venice, from which the view of the city is peculiarly beautiful.⁵ See “SCALZI.”

CONTARINI, PORTA DI FERRO, PALAZZO, near the Church of St. John and Paul, so called from the beautiful ironwork on a door, which was some time ago taken down by the proprietor and sold. Mr. Rawdon Brown rescued some of the ornaments from the hands of the blacksmith who had bought them for old iron. The head of the door is a very interesting stone arch of the early thirteenth century, already drawn in my folio work.⁶ In the interior court is a beautiful remnant of staircase, with a piece of balcony at the top, circa 1350, and one of the most richly and carefully wrought in Venice. The palace, judging by these remanants (all that are now left of it, except a single traceried window of the same date at the turn of the stair), must once have been among the most magnificent in Venice.

CONTARINI (DELLE FIGURE), PALAZZO, on the Grand Canal, XI. 21.

CONTARINI DAI SCRIGNI, PALAZZO, on the Grand Canal. A Gothic building, founded on the Ducal Palace. Two Renaissance statues in niches at the sides give it its name.

CONTARINI FASAN, PALAZZO, on the Grand Canal, X. 286. The richest work of the fifteenth century domestic Gothic in Venice, but notable more for riches than excellence of design. In one respect, however, it deserves

¹ [Above, on the right, in this picture, there is the figure of an angel flying upwards, which has been compared with the “Ganymede” in the National Gallery (No. 32), by an unknown artist: see the reproductions of the two figures in J. B.S. Holborn’s Tintoretto, between pp. 34, 35.]

² [“One of his most enchanting works” (Kugler’s Italian Schools of Painting, edited by Layard, ii. 620).]

³ [This palace has recently been restored by its owner, Baron Franchetti.]

⁴ [Now the Court of Appeal.]

⁵ [The view is that described by Shelley in Julian and Maddalo:-

“I leaned, and saw the city, and could mark

How from their many isles in evening’s gleam

Its temples and its palaces did seem

Like fabrics of enchantment piled to Heaven.”

The church is now part of the Lunatic Asylum, described in the same poem.]

⁶ [Plate 11 in the Examples; see above, p. 340.]

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