Frari and Rocco

After Saint Mark's, Linda and I headed to San Toma to visit the Frari Church and Scuola Grande di San Rocco and San Rocco church. Frari is a pretty big church, and pretty grand. While there are lots of great paintings, some by Titian, I was more struck with the sculptures and wood work. There were a couple of very impressive tomb monuments, one for Titian, and the pyramid one for Canova. Further forward in the church, the choir stalls were great, especially the gilding.



This statue of the virgin was surrounded by photos of loved ones, I assume.



Campo San Rocco is quite close. Here we are in front of the church of San Rocco. We did enjoy the church, but the Scuola made an even bigger impression.



While all the paintings by Tintoretto were spectacular, painted with some variety of style and color palette, the most striking part of the school was the wood carvings by Pianta. They are fascinating and strange, and very detailed. They're all weird allegorical figures, with strange accessories. Linda has a great book detailing the carvings, I read the whole thing.



This great lamp was on the way up to the treasury.