Greetings all
Here’s a big collection of photos from the Palazzo Ducale, a place with quite the history. I have to see, this was a highlight of the trip. There’s so much amazing stuff here from the basic stuff like the floor and doors to the intricate, amazing artwork.
Overall, I took nearly 400 pictures here. A bunch are will be in the Arms and Armor picture drop but there are 288 in this post, so we’d better get to it!
You start off with some sculpted columns. As usual, click on the signs to get more info.
Middle left is the Doge’s gondola. Then there are pics of the courtyard with the cistern in the middle.
Neat plaques, doors, and other architectural elements.
So many amazing ceilings here.
Did I mention ceilings?
That door was amazing. So were so many of the paintings.
That fireplace was so cool. Yeah, it’s the basic stuff that gets me from time to time.
The Sala di Collegio was simply astounding.
The Doge’s seat in the bottom right for ceremonial court stuff.
Just awe-inspiring.
Isn’t that door amazing? And the seats for council members?
More of the sort of basic stuff like the amazing floor in middle right and the door in the middle.
That’s a desk or file storage in the bottom right. It was gorgeous.
We keep moving from amazing room to amazing room.
A lot of this statuary is among the various armories, so it’ll seem disjointed. Also from the armories was the opportunity to take pictures from the windows. Some of these pictures will be in the Ships page when I get to it.
We moved into the Liago, which had this amazing art over the seats. Between the complex loveliness of the art and the simple beauty of the woodworking, this was a such a comfortable room.
Neat heraldic badges in top middle.
In the middle, you see people do restoration and preservation work. The batch after that comes from the Chamber of the Quarantia Civil Nuova. This place was huge but still covered with artwork.
More from the Chamber of the Quarantia Civil Nuova.
Still more!
Did I mention this chamber is huge?
Still from the Chamber of the Quarantia Civil Nuova, with some signs, though we finally move to the Sala di Scrutino in the bottom row.
Pics of the courtyard from the windows.
At the end of this we end up in the Picture Gallery of the Palazzo Ducale, many examples of which are amazing. Shocking, I know.
Like these pictures here.
And here. By the way, I love the winged lions.
We start getting into the prison, which has some neat stone windows overlooking the canals. These are actually from inside the Bridge of Sighs.
Also, that’s my wife thinking how good I might look sitting in the Doge’s prison. I kid. At least, I hope I kid…
Back across the Bridge of Sighs and into the main Palazzo again.
Into the Sala di Censori.
A pic from under the Bridge of Sighs in middle left.
Finally, as we left, the statue of St. Theodore.
And that’s it from the Palazzo Ducale, which clearly was amazing. Amazing enough I’d like to go back someday.
Tomorrow, we’ll cross the Piazza San Marco to the Correr Museum.