My Neighbor

This is Campo dei Mori. (a 'campo' is a small piazza, and 'Mori' is Moors, so this is where the Moors used to hang out and live.) It is right behind my building, well, across a canal from my building. This is one of the relief sculptures in Campo dei Mori. I call him Il Naso.
This is another Moor relief sculpture. Notice the exotic turban:

Now I'm going to show you yet another Moor relief sculpture in a turban, but this one is special.

See the green door to the right of the Moor? Well this is the little white square next to the door:
That's right, Tintoretto lived and worked about 25 feet from where I am now living. Take a minute to let that sink in because when I found out my mind exploded.

This last picture was taken from my kitchen window.

Two canals away is the church where Il Furioso himself is actually interred. Of course, keeping with all the churches/museums/anything important in Venice, there is no photography allowed. So I cannot show you his grave or his paintings. But I have heard of a magical device called Google that stores many pictures of his paintings.

This post is getting extremely long, but I have to add that inside Madonna dell'Orto is a photocopy of a Madonna and Child painting that was done by Giovanni Bellini. The original was stolen in 1994, so if any of you come across it, let me know (ok, the Italian Government first, but then me).