Venice: The Frari

If you don't have time for museums and art in Venice, at least go see the Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari church. It is a vast and beautiful Gothic church, Venice's only Gothic, and it contains in a nutshell the best of Venetian art. It was our last stop and a fitting and positive end to our 3rd visit to the Wet City.

A huge old brick church in a square; no way to

see the whole thing

Looking up the nave, through the choir, to

Titian's great masterpiece

Titian's Assumption; I don't much care for this

stuff, nor for Venetian painting generally (too

over the top), but this one is pretty compelling

Titian's tomb

Detail

Bellini's great altarpiece; enlarge and look at the guy on the

right

Donatello's St. John

Canova's tomb, modeled supposedly on the

Piramide in Rome

The exquisitely carved choir