a first-rate example of Renaissance work; nothing can
be more detestable or mindless in general design, or more beautiful in
execution. Examine especially the griffins, fixed in admiration of
bouquets, at the bottom. The fruit and flowers which arrest the
attention of the griffins may well arrest the traveller's also;
nothing can be finer of their kind. The tomb of Canova, _by_ Canova,
cannot be missed; consummate in science, intolerable in affectation,
ridiculous in conception, null and void to the uttermost in invention
and feeling. The equestrian statue of Paolo Savelli is spirited; the
monument of the Beato Pacifico, a curious example of Renaissance
Gothic with wild crockets (all in terra cotta). There are several good
Vivarini's in the church, but its chief pictorial treasure is the John
Bellini in the sacristy, the most finished and delicate example of the
master in Venice.

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GEREMIA, CHURCH OF ST. Of no importance.

GESUATI, CHURCH OF THE. Of no importance.

GIACOMO DE LORIO, CHURCH OF ST., a most interesting church, of the early
thirteenth century, but grievously restored. Its capitals have been
already noticed as characteristic of the earliest Gothic; and it is
said to contain four works of Paul Veronese, but I have not examined
them. The pulpit is admired by the Italians, but is utterly worthless.
The verdantique pillar, in the south transept, is a very noble example
of the "Jewel Shaft." See the note at p. 83, Vol. II.

GIACOMO DI RIALTO, CHURCH OF ST. A picturesque little church, on the
Piazza di Rialto. It has been grievously restored, but the pillars and
capitals of its nave are certainly of the eleventh century; those of
its portico are of good central Gothic; and it will surely not be left
unvisited, on this ground, if on no other, that it stands on the site,
and still retains the name, of the first church ever built on that
Rialto which formed the nucleus of future Venice, and became
afterwards the mart of her merchants.

GIOBBE, CHURCH OF ST., near the Cana Reggio. Its principal entrance is
a very fine example of early Renaissance sculpture. Note in it,
especially, its beautiful use of the flower of the convolvulus. There
are said to be still more beautiful examples of the same period, in
the interior. The cloister, though much defaced, is of the Gothic
period, and worth a glance.

GIORGI