Road Sculpture in Venice

It becomes difficult for anyone who wants to study sculpting external Venice, just to draw up an index that can be accurately and simultaneously practical, comprehensive and simple, all-encompassing and schematic.

Numerous are the capitals along the streets of Venice, have been placed, or a prayer or perhaps because, in front of a divine image, were deterred those who had had some bodily need.

So much so that the images of the Madonna and Child are numerous and one can say that there is one on almost every street corner, at least the principal.

At the foot of the Ponte della Paglia, for example, a tabernacle with the Madonna and Child, by Lorenzetti called the Madonna of the gondoliers .

Under this capital you can read the following inscription:

Traghetto del Ponte della Paglia sotto S. Giulio D. Alvise da Portia Gast et S. Marchio et S. Stefano compagni

At the bottom, between two gondolas, reads the laying year MDLXXIII.

To give a scheme to Sculpture erratic, as did others, it shall be to the work of Alberto Rizzi, Sculpture external Venice, Printing House of Venice Publishing, 1987.

The work is divided for Sestieri and every element comes a sequence number that mirrors that of Alberto Rizzi, a recent picture, a presentation board with the state of preservation, the master reference where to find the 'object.