Tuesday, November 13, 2018

Unseen Venice: Private Cortile, Rio San Giacomo dall'Orio

In a stretch of narrow canal banked on either side by two uninterrupted rows of modest palazzi, this low water gate, and the glimpse it provides of just a few potted plants and a column, appears as nothing less than fantastical. And so narrow is the canal a wide angle is needed to capture even this much of its setting.


2 comments:

  1. What a magical image! Very "Alice in wonderland" It would be lovely to slip inside there.

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    1. Thanks, Ella; made me think of "the low door in the wall" to which Waugh refers in Brideshead Revisited.

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