This palace still belongs to the Morosini family, to whose present
representative, the Count Carlo Morosini, the reader is indebted for
the note on the character of his ancestors, above, III. 213.
MOROSINI, PALAZZO, at St. Stefano. Of no importance.
N
NANI-MOCENIGO, PALAZZO. (Now Hotel Danieli.) A glorious example of the
central Gothic, nearly contemporary with the finest part of the Ducal
Palace. Though less impressive in effect than the Casa Foscari or Casa
Bernardo, it is of purer architecture than either: and quite unique in
the delicacy of the form of the cusps in the central group of windows,
which are shaped like broad scimitars, the upper foil of the windows
being very small. If the traveller will compare these windows with
the neighboring traceries of the Ducal Palace, he will easily perceive
the peculiarity.
NICOLO DEL LIDO, CHURCH OF ST. Of no importance.
NOME DI GESU, CHURCH OF THE. Of no importance.
O
ORFANI, CHURCH OF THE. Of no importance.
ORTO, CHURCH OF STA. MARIA, DELL'. An interesting example of Renaissance
Gothic, the traceries of the windows being very rich and quaint.
It contains four most important Tintorets: "The Last Judgment," "The
Worship of the Golden Calf," "The Presentation of the Virgin," and
"Martyrdom of St. Agnes." The first two are among his largest and
mightiest works, but grievously injured by damp and neglect; and
unless the traveller is accustomed to decipher the thoughts in a
picture patiently, he need not hope to derive any pleasure from them.
But no pictures will better reward a resolute study. The following
account of the "Last Judgment," given in the second volume of "Modern
Painters," will be useful in enabling the traveller to enter into the
meaning of the picture, but its real power is only to be felt by
patient examination of it.
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