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Doge's Palace Paradiso
From Guariento to Tintoretto
Edited By Monica da Corta Fumei
June 2006
Mondadori Electa, Milan, Italy
Distributed By Trans-Atlantic Publications
ISBN: 9788837048808
48 Pages, Illustrated, 6 x 6 1/8 "
$19.95 Paper Original
From the Introduction:
"The Great Council Chamber in the Doge's Palace was the heart of the political machinery of the Venetian Republic. Anyone entering this magnificent room notes, on the eastern wall, the wide wooden dais occupied by carved wooden stalls that once seated the Doge and his councillors (the former in the central stall surmounted by the triangular pediment). Up to the middle of the sixteenth century and beyond, the wall above this dais was occupied by a massive fresco of the Coronation of the Virgin, also commonly known as Il Paradiso..."
