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Enter the cloisters museum to see Canova's 1808 funerary stelae featuring gorgeous
women dabbing their eyes with their cloaks, Tullio Lombardo's wide-eyed 1505 saint, and
three brooding 1575-80 Tintorettos:
Last Supper,
with a ghostly dog begging for bread;
the gathering gloom of
Agony in the Garden
; and the abstract, mostly black
Washing of
the Feet
. Observe a moment of silence near the apse, and you may hear the subterranean
canal burbling under the choir stalls.
NEGOZIO OLIVETTI
MAP
LANDMARK
GOOGLE MAP
(Olivetti Store; 041 522 83 87;
www.negoziolivetti.it
; Piazza San Marco 101, Procuratie Vecchie; adult/reduced incl
audio tour €5/2.50; 11am-6.30pm Tue-Sun Apr-Oct, to 4.30pm Nov-Mar; San Marco)
Like a revolver
pulled from a petticoat, ultra-modern Negozio Olivetti was an outright provocation when
it first appeared under the frilly arcades of Piazza San Marco in 1958. High-tech pioneer
