Here it is, the hall of the greatest council!
Entering through a door and being in such a large space, it confuses me, but then it makes me laugh ... I have eyes wide open and it is difficult to immediately realize where we are.
This room is 52 meters long, 25 meters wide and 15,4 meters high and...there are no pillars !!
I remember that this room was built almost 500 years ago...
Here was the maximum Venetian magistracy, they sat on long benches from 1200 to 2000 people!
All surfaces are decorated with gigantic paintings.
Only the ceiling can count 35 paintings on canvas.
The room is lit by 7 large ogival windows, I approach one and look at the courtyard of the palace through the glass tied with lead...
I turn around and my attention is drawn to a huge painting as wide as the hall!
It is the "Paradise" of the painter Tintoretto (Jacopo Robusti), the largest canvas in the world, with its twenty-two meters in length for seven and a half meters.
It was painted between 1588 and 1592 in collaboration with his son Domenico.
For its realization, the Senate asked the most famous painters of the time, Tintoretto, Veronese, Palma the young and Bassano. The three sketches for the work, made later by Tintoretto, are now kept in the Louvre, the Lille Museum and the Hermitage in St. Petersburg.
In this work the artist imagines a celestial world that revolves around the glory of Christ and the Virgin.
I want to go and see the view of the palace on the lagoon and notice that we are right in front of the island of San Giorgio...
What a charm Venice has, it is a city that emanates a halo of charm and mystery that can not be felt anywhere else in the world.
I am looking at the same spot where even the most powerful men in Venice looked hundreds of years ago!
I could stay here days looking at these walls from how many details there are, every painting is amazing!
I decide to go to the next room, the scrutiny room...
Here the new doge was voted.
There is a painting, even this one, really big, I think, at least five by two meters, it represents the victory of a naval battle.
It is not easy to photograph such large paintings, without a tripod, with completely wrong light, but perhaps you understand the power of this work, here it is!
In front of this painting I felt like a spectator of the battle, it is really realistic, every centimeter represents something. Impressive.
Thank you for visiting, it is not easy to select the things to show you, let me know what you think,
I wish you a nice day