#the lion of st mark

The Lion of St. Mark - Vittore Carpaccio 
1516
tempera on canvas
130×368 cm
Palazzo Ducale, Venice 

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“Memory’s images, once they are fixed in words, are erased,“ Polo said. "Perhaps I am afraid of losing Venice all at once, if I speak of it, or perhaps, speaking of other cities, I have already lost it, little by little.”
I. C., Invisible Cities