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The gilt polychrome ceiling is one of the most important in Venice as it is the only fifteenth-century ceiling decoration still extant in the city.
Visit the Gallerie dell’Accademia, the top art museum in Venice, to see masterpieces by Titian, Bellini, Veronese, Tintoretto, and, with a bit of luck, Leonardo da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man.
At least two of these statues were clearly based on live models; their faces are purely wonderful. These are Swabian and date from sometime before 1489.