The great Dominican church, built in a mellow red brick, dominates
this area of Venice. The Gothic interior, one of the most impressive
in the city, houses the tombs of countless Doges. A good, early
Bellini altarpiece to St Vincent Ferrer stands at the beginning
of the right aisle, next to a macabre urn containing the flayed
skin of Marcantonio Bragadin, who defended Cyprus against the
Turks. Strangely enough, despite the fame of the glassworks in
Murano, the 15th century stained glass in the right transept
is almost the only example in Venice.
