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<\/a><\/p>\nThe two Saints, Pietro and Paolo, are standing one beside the other and they are reading. Pietro is wearing a great representation of compass spectacles, maybe made out of painted iron.
\nAs said for the tile at Ca\u2019 d\u2019oro, the painting of the glasses is extremely accurate and it is then possible to make a comparison between this and the one at Ca\u2019 d\u2019Oro. They both have a series of white dots along the main structure. This type of details is very rare on the ground-plan. As the painting is from 1490 and the tile is from 1510, we might assume that they very close in terms of location. Crivelli\u2019s love for his homeland could make us think that the glasses are from Venice as well as the tiles. But the painting had been made in Marche, where the production of pottery and majolica was very flourishing. Unfortunately we have none of these frames with us that could testify our theory, so it will remain not certain until some new proof will clarify the subject.<\/p>\n
There is another painting by Crivelli, where it is possible to see a specs\u2019 case. San Giacomo della Marca is painted on wood, dated 1477, and it is now kept at Louvre, Paris. The case hangs from the belt of the Saint.<\/p>\n
Surprises at the Accademia are way long from being over. Just looking at the ceiling of the room you are in, you could admire another pair of glasses.<\/p>\n There are bas-reliefs on the ceiling itself, and in one of the four circles with the evangelists, St. John is in his study-room, and a pair of rivet-spectacles is laying on the small writing-desk.<\/p>\n \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Now visit to the Accademia is over. Walk over the temporary wooden bridgeand walk to Piazza S. Marco. Once you got there, get to Correr Museum from the Napoleonic side. It is one of the most important museums in Serenissima\u2019s history. In it many prints, paintings and other objects are kept. Among all the items, it is possible to see some representations of both glasses and cases.<\/p>\n With the purpose of making a catalogue named \u201cGli abiti de\u2019 veneziani\u201d, G. Grevenbroch painted, in 1754, representations of many different jobs. Glasses are in the hands or on the desks of: Among all the items normally used for navigation, it is possible to admire a nice paper-mach\u00e8 made telescope, signed by Leonardo Semitecolo. The best item anyway is the old insegna of the \u201cVagineri\u201d congregation. Basically they were cases\u2019 makers who founded the congregation in 1314.<\/p>\n Due to the restoration carried out in 1733, we don\u2019t know whether images have been removed or added, or modified. It looks like a catalogue of all the items made by these people and among them you can see some glasses cases.<\/p>\n You are now at the end of route S. Only one thing is left to do: sit in the world\u2019s most beautiful living room, as Napoleon said. In Piazza S. Marco there are still two of the oldest caf\u00e9s in the world, the Quadri and the Florian.<\/p>\n You can have a break, have a drink, and find out that on the mirrors of the XIX sec.that cover the entire Quadri caf\u00e9, there are images of venetians carrying f\u00e0ce-a-main type specs.<\/p>\n THE END The southern route connects two different accesses to the city: the new and the old, following a route which is almost unknown to tourists. Start from the left corner at Piazzale Roma, and walk along the very long Fondamenta dei Tre Ponti, heading to Accademia. Then walk along Calle Ragusei. As you get to Campo […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5531,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[237],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cultural-trips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.otticavascellari.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.otticavascellari.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.otticavascellari.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.otticavascellari.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.otticavascellari.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6830"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.otticavascellari.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8575,"href":"https:\/\/www.otticavascellari.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6830\/revisions\/8575"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.otticavascellari.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.otticavascellari.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.otticavascellari.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.otticavascellari.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n
\n\u2013 The lawyer and the book-keeper
\n\u2013 The venetian gentleman at his desk
\n\u2013 The taylor<\/p>\n<\/a>
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\nA special thank to Alexis Wanlathem for the images of the Quadri Caff\u00e8.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"