Turner shows in this picture the Grand Canal filled with ships from other countries with gaily colored flags fluttering in the breeze. Do you see the tower at the left in the picture? That is the Campanile, the bell-tower. This wonderful tower fell down flat in 1902. I talked with a man who has a store just opposite the tower, a few weeks after it fell. He said to me: "I thought it would fall on my store and destroy everything. It began to tip; then all at once it fell flat just where it stood." The Venetians soon built it up again.
When Napoleon, the great French emperor, took Venice, he rode up the inclined plane of this tower on his horse and stood on the very top overlooking the sea.
Fig. 28. The Grand Canal. Turner. Courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
[Please click here for a modern color image]
![[Please click here for a modern color image]](#697048112262924874_image_057_1.jpg.id-4552310931830536425.wrap-0.html.html){kind=link}