Against it stand four colossal Nubians, as black as night, dressed in white marble garments.

The black legs are bare, and through rents in sleeves and breeches, the skin, of shiny black marble, shows.

The artist was as ingenious as his funeral designs were absurd.

There are two bronze skeletons bearing scrolls, and two great dragons uphold the sarcophagus.

On high, amid all this grotesqueness, sits the departed doge.
In the conventual buildings attached to this church are the state archives of Venice.