The Court of the Ducal Palace, Venice. The drawing shows the courtyard of the Ducal Palace in Venice, looking from the south-west corner. On the left is the facade of the Porticato Foscari, with the domes of Saint Mark's rising above it, and the monument to Francesco Maria I della Rovere, Duke of Urbino, on its right (Giovanni Bandini, 1587, installed in 1625); Antonio Rizzo's Scala dei Giganti (1484-1501) appears just left of centre, and his eastern courtyard facade (1483-98) occupies the right-hand half of the drawing. In the courtyard are two bronze well-heads, that in the foreground cast by Niccol?? dei Conti in 1556, that behind it by Alfonso Alberghetti in 1559., Ruskin, John