San Giorgio Maggiore

See Ruskin’s Venetian Index Works, 11.381 ‘A building which owes its interesting effect chiefly to its isolated position, being seen over a great space of lagoon.’ It is the work of Andrea Palladio (1508-1580), commissioned 1564, started 1566, façade completed 1610.

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