You've probable seen some of these before, but as it's one of my favourite places in Venice of course I had to visit it again last Friday. A friend Caroline came with me, she hadn't visited it before. There are an amazing cycle of paintings by Carpaccio about St George, St Typhoon and St Jerome.
This is a lovely old door just opposite the scull.
The relief over the door.
St George protecting the girl, below, from the huge dragon.
The deflated, dead dragon.
A selection of some of the other paintings.
St jerome & others fleeing from the lion.
In the original drawing the dog was a ferret, but was changed in the final painting.
The altarpiece in the upstairs chapel.
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