2-713-960 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Venice: The Bacino di San Marco on Ascension Day 1729', (1943). View of the Doge's palace and his galleon, the 'Bucintoro', at anchor, probably for the ceremony of the 'Marriage of the Sea', held each Ascension Day to celebrate the city's maritime dominance. Drawing in the Royal Collection. From "Europäische Handzeichnungen", (Five Hundred Years of European Drawings), by Bernhard Degenhart. [Atlantis-Verlag Berlin, Zürich, 1943]