House No 44

This is a house on the canal to the left of Sotoportego della Stua, Castello, near S. Giovanni Nuovo (Castello 4399, Nadali & Vianello (1999) Tav. 30). Gothic windows on the campo side of the building at the entrance to Calle Piasentini. See Works, 11.267 for details to be seen on Plate 14 ‘The Orders of Venetian Arches’. This appears at Works, 10.290: ‘7e. At the turn of the Canal on which the Sotto Portico della Stua opens, near San Zaccaria’. Works, 11.281 Plate 9 ‘Gothic Archivolts’ No 5 ‘Door at Sotto Portico dell Stua’.

Entrance to Calle Piasentina (left) from Campo Zaninovo leading to House No 45,(Castello 4392), Ruskin’s ‘dark and filthy alley’ Stp de la Stua entrance on the right.
Entrance to Calle Piasentina (left) from Campo Zaninovo leading to House No 45,(Castello 4392), Ruskin’s ‘dark and filthy alley’ Stp de la Stua entrance on the right.

Window of House No 44 (at start of Calle Piasentina) (Castello 4395A)
Window of House No 44 (at start of Calle Piasentina) (Castello 4395A)

Shows the ‘plinth to a continuous balcony above now ruined brackets’ on the other side of House No 44
Shows the ‘plinth to a continuous balcony above now ruined brackets’ on the other side of House No 44

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