Gregorio, Church of St., on the Grand Canal. An important church of the fourteenth century, now desecrated, but still interesting. Its apse is on the little canal crossing from the Grand Canal to the Giudecca, beside the Church of the Salute, and is very characteristic of the rude ecclesiastical Gothic contemporary with the Ducal Palace. The entrance to its cloisters, from the Grand Canal, is somewhat later; a noble square door, with two windows on each side of it, the grandest examples in Venice of the late window of the fourth order.
The cloister, to which this door gives entrance, is exactly contemporary with the finest work of the Ducal Palace, circa 1350. It is the loveliest cortile I know in Venice; its capitals consummate in design and execution; and the low wall on which they stand showing remnants of sculpture unique, as far as I know, in such application.
Grimani, Palazzo, on the Grand Canal, [III. 32].
There are several other palaces in Venice belonging to this family, but none of any architectural interest.
J
Jesuiti, Church of the. The basest Renaissance; but worth a visit in order to examine the imitations of curtains in white marble inlaid with green.
It contains a Tintoret, “The Assumption,” which I have not examined; and a Titian, “The Martyrdom of St. Lawrence,” originally, it seems to me, of little value, and now, having been restored, of none.
L
Labia Palazzo, on the Canna Reggio. Of no importance.