5/6 You are in Venice. 163 by Canaletto you will see the first thing that meets the gaze as one emerges upon fairyland from the Venice terminus: the copper dome of S.Simeon. The scene was not much different when it was painted, say, _circa_ 1740. The iron bridge was not yet, and a church stands where the station now is; but the rest is much the same. And as you wander here and there in this city, in the days to come, that will be one of your dominating impressions--how much of the past remains unharmed. |