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January 2001 - Venice Drawing, Eating, and Visiting

Drawing at the piazzetta, eating eel, the top and bottom of St. Mark's, and eating fish and ray

Sketching in the piazzetta, seated on the raised walkways used during the floods Sketching. Maggie and I are sharing a sketchbook Santa Marie delle Salute from the Accademia Bridge Tote in his bed beneath charts of the Venice area
The eel cooking. Upstairs at St. Mark's Maggie and the replica horses Piazza San Marco from the facade of San Marco
Proud horses; Silly children Horses and bell tower Running on the roof. Yikes. Front of St. Mark's
The piazzetta looking toward the Basin with the Doge's palace on the left, the library on the right, and two saints on pillars. Detail of a mosaic Top of St. Mark's The original horses, swiped from Constantinople, carted off to Paris by Napoleon, returned to Venice, and now stashed inside
Floor of St. Mark's Floor of St. Mark's Floor of St. Mark's Floor of St. Mark's
Floor of St. Mark's Floor of St. Mark's Floor of St. Mark's Inside San Marco
Venetian glass Venetian glass Monica and the fish and ray we bought at the market Gondolas tied up along the basin