Window detail, Madonna dell Orto, Cannaregio This is typical of Venetian Gothic work. Although this is a standard Gothic arch, it is finished in a typically Venetian manner, with striped red and white edging, and an elaborate mixture of quatrefoil and trefoil tracery work. The story about this house goes that a foreign merchant settled in Venice. Castello A floriated Gothic balcony. Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, dating from the mid-14th century.
Many people spend their time counting the number of lions that they see in Venice.
I found that you could have an equally good time locating reliefs of St. George slaying the dragon. The relief here, found inside a sottoportego , is of average quality or below. This relief, like the one following, is set into a wall in a small campiello behind the church of San Giacomo dall'Orio. Relief, Campiello di Piovan, S. Giacomo dall'Orio, Santa Croce Reliefs such as these are at least as likely to have be of foreign origin as native. In the present case, multiple reliefs were set randomly into a stucco wall.