The Palazzo Contarini-Fasan, Venice Frame:natural Sargent sought relief from painting

Sargent sought relief from painting portraits and turned to landscapes

Pissarro painted relatively few still lifes

Uccello's approach is also highly decorative

inhabited by the receding forms of men and animals

with three upper storeys of round-arched windows

The Palazzo Contarini-Fasan, Venice Frame:natural Sargent sought relief from paintingThe drawing shows a view up the Grand Canal from a point roughly in the middle of the opening into the Bacino di San Marco, focussing on the buildings between the Calle del Traghetto and Rio dele Ostreghe. The buildings are, from right to left: the Palazzo Contarini, with two upper storeys of ogee arched windows and balconies; the Palazzo Contarini Fasan, with two upper storeys of ogee arches and very ornate balconies; the Palazzo Manolesso Ferro,