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Frari District
For a rapid survey of the summit of Venetian painting in its golden age, your first stop after the Accademia should be the constellation of buildings a few alleys west of San Polo - the Frari , the Scuola Grande di San Rocco and San Rocco church. The genesis of Ruskin’s preoccupation with Venice was a visit to the Scuola, where a pictorial interpretation of the life of Christ by Tintoretto flows through the entire building; and if you can take yet more after the intensity of the Scuola’s cycle, the church next door contains further works by him. A trio of magnificent altarpieces by Bellini and Titian are the principal treasures of the Frari, but even if these don’t strike a chord, there’s bound to be something among the church’s assembly of paintings, sculptures and monuments that’ll get it onto your list of Venetian highlights.
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