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IN PICTURES
Ala Napoleonica, Piazza San Marco: façade facing the Basilica
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Date: 1807-1836
Place:Venice
Subjects: Architecture, Italy, Napoleon (King of Italy)
Key words: Venice, Giovanni Antonio Antolini, Giuseppe Maria Soli, Lorenzo Santi, arcades, sculpture
Credits: Musei Civici Veneziani
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Notes:
The façade of the Ala Napoleonica here shows two superimposed arcades of fifteen arches above which (in the attic) there runs a frieze with in the centre a carved representation of Napoleon enthroned - a scene destroyed by the Austrians on their return. The panels of the frieze are interspersed with statues in bas-relief representing emperors, law givers and heroes, notably Achilles, Lycurgus, Alexander, Caesar, Augustus, Charlemagne, etc. Antonio Bosa and Domenico Banti executed the sculptures.
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