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Da Ponte, and here gathered the plenum of all the
positions of state (about 1500 members), sometimes used
for parties and banquets. Just behind the tribune where
the Doge sat with his counsellors, we find the enormous
fresco, the Heaven, work of Jacopo and Domenico
Tintoretto, celebrating the good government of the
Republic. It's important to mention the Apotheosis of
Venice that is on the ceiling of Veronese in the ovals
that flank it, paintings of Palma il Giovane and Jacopo
Tintoretto. In the high part of the walls are painted the
portraits of the doges up to Francis Venier (1554-1556), work of the
Tintoretto. A black fund portrait with the inscription
that reminds the ignominy , occupies the place of the
Doge Marin Faliero, beheaded in 1355 after a
conspiracy against the State. Nearby the Rooms of the Quarantia
Civil Nuova, that was a Court of Appeal and that of the
Ballot,
for the votings of the Doges. A lot of paintings hung
here narrate the naval battles of the Venetians (their
Victory of Lepanto, 1571 of Vicentino) and it completes
the series of portraits of the doges with the last one,
the one of Lodovico Marin (1789-1797). |
