436 VENETIAN INDEX

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VITALE, CHURCH OF ST. Said to contain a picture by Vittor Carpaccio, over the high altar:¹ otherwise of no importance.

[VITTURA, CASA, XI. 144 n., 281.]

VOLTO SANTO, CHURCH OF THE. An interesting but desecrated ruin of the fourteenth century; fine in style. Its roof retains some fresco colouring, but, as far as I recollect, of later date than the architecture.

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ZACCARIA, CHURCH OF ST. Early Renaissance, and fine of its kind; a Gothic chapel attached to it is of great beauty. It contains the best John Bellini in Venice, after that of San G. Grisostomo, “The Virgin, with Four Saints;”² and is said to contain another John Bellini and a Tintoret, neither of which I have seen.

[ZACCARIA, ST. CAMPO, XI. 12.]

ZITELLE, CHURCH OF THE. Of no importance.

ZOBENIGO, CHURCH OF SANTA MARIA, XI. 149. It contains one valuable Tintoret, namely:

Christ with Sta. Justina and St. Augustin. (Over the third altar on the south side of the nave.) A picture of small size, and upright, about ten feet by eight. Christ appears to be descending out of the clouds between the two saints, who are both kneeling on the sea-shore. It is a Venetian sea, breaking on a flat beach, like the Lido, with a scarlet galley in the middle distance, of which the chief use is to unite the two figures by a point of colour. Both the saints are respectable Venetians of the lower class, in homely dresses and with homely faces. The whole picture is quietly painted, and somewhat slightly; free from all extravagance, and displaying little power except in the general truth or harmony of colours so easily laid on. It is better preserved than usual, and worth dwelling upon as an instance of the style of the master when at rest.

[ZORZI, PALAZZO, X. 308.]

¹ [“St. Vitale on horseback, with his mother Valeria, his sons Gervasius and Protasius, St. George and other saints.” This fine picture is signed, and dated 1514. It has been published by the Arundel Society.]

² [For the Bellini, see above, p. 379. The other reputed Bellini-a Circumcision-is a school picture; the Tintoret is the “Birth of St. John the Baptist.”]

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