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THE BROCHURE SERIES The Ducal Palace: Venice Types of Italian Garden Fountains SEPTEMBER, 1900 |
| PLATE LXVII | COURT OF THE DUCAL PALACE |
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| 1900. | SEPTEMBER | No. 9. |
THE DUCAL PALACE: VENICE
"Considered as the principal representation of the Venetian school of architecture, the Ducal Palace is the Parthenon of Venice," wrote Ruskin. To know its history would be to know the entire history of the Republic, for it was not alone the residence of her doges, but at different epochs her senate-house, her court of justice, a prison, and even a place of execution. Combining thus in one structure, as it does, the greatest architectural and the greatest historical importance, there is, perhaps, no more interesting monument now existing in the world.