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EMO, PALAZZO, on the Grand Canal. Of no interest.

ERIZZO, PALAZZO, near the Arsenal, X. 305.

ERIZZO, PALAZZO, on the Grand Canal, nearly opposite the Fondaco de’ Turchi. A Gothic palace, with a single range of windows founded on the Ducal traceries, and bold capitals. It has been above referred to in the notice of tracery bars.

EUFEMIA, CHURCH OF ST. A small and defaced, but very curious, early Gothic church on the Giudecca. Not worth visiting, unless the traveller is seriously interested in architecture.

EUROPA, ALBERGO ALL’. Once a Giustiniani palace. Good Gothic, circa 1400, but much altered.

[EUSTACHIO, ST., XI. 150, and below, p. 397, s. “Ospedaletto.”]

EVANGELISTI, CASA DEGLI, X. 309, XI. 281.

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FACANON, PALAZZO (ALLA FAVA). A fair example of the fifteenth century Gothic, founded on Ducal Palace.

FALIER, PALAZZO, at the Apostoli, IX. 336, 341, X. 296 (and Plate 15), XI. 272, 276.

[FALIER, PALAZZO, on the Grand Canal, X. (Plate G).]

FANTINO, CHURCH OF ST. Said to contain a John Bellini,¹ otherwise of no importance.

FARSETTI, PALAZZO,² on the Grand Canal, X. 146, 150, 157, 159, n., 454 [and see Vol. IX. Plate C].

FAVA, CHURCH OF ST. Of no importance.

FELICE, CHURCH OF ST. Said to contain a Tintoret, which, if untouched, I should conjecture, from Lazari’s statement of its subject, St. Demetrius

on his knees before Christ, with the Ducal Palace and sea in the distance, and I thought considering all I had done about the Ducal Palace and Tintoret that it was well worth the 50 Napoleons to me.”

“July 24.-... I hope you will like the Tintoret in spite of its wretched state. It is interesting as being a sketch for a well-known picture in the Ducal Palace, and full of variations; that is to say, the picture is not the least like the sketch, and the genuineness of the study is so far proved by this, as any forger of old pictures would assuredly have followed the figures of the larger work. I think you will like the way the dress of the Doge is done with those white strokes, and the portrait itself, which though small is highly elaborated.”

The “wretched state” of the sketch referred to its dirt and unlined condition. Ruskin wrote later (Aug. 14):-

“I am so delighted that you like the Tintoret; if you do so in its present state, you will indeed be struck by it when it is cleaned, or rather varnished, for I shall bar cleaning, but I had not time before leaving London to examine it thoroughly, so as to be able to say positively to the cleaner that I should know if he touched a quarter of an inch of the colour.”]

¹ [On the right wall of the choir; a small Holy Family, school of Bellini.]

² [Now part of the Municipal Offices.]

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