of bellows, curiously associated with a symbolic cup with a
wafer, which, however, is in an injured part of the canvas, and may
have been added by the priests. I am totally unable to state what the
background of the picture is or has been; and the only point farther
to be noted about it is the solemnity, which, in spite of the familiar
and homely circumstances above noticed, the painter has given to the
scene, by placing the Saviour, in the act of washing the feet of
Peter, at the top of a circle of steps, on which the other Apostles
kneel in adoration and astonishment.

MORO, PALAZZO. See OTHELLO.

MOROSINI, PALAZZO, near the Ponte dell' Ospedaletto, at San Giovannie
Paolo. Outside it is not interesting, though the gateway shows remains
of brickwork of the thirteenth century. Its interior court is
singularly beautiful; the staircase of early fourteenth century Gothic
has originally been superb, and the window in the angle above is the
most perfect that I know in Venice of the kind; the lightly sculptured
coronet is exquisitely introduced at the top of its spiral shaft.

This palace still belongs to the Morosini family, to whose present
representative, the Count Carlo Morosini, the reader is indebted for
the note on the character of his ancestors, above, III. 213.

MOROSINI, PALAZZO, at St. Stefano. Of no importance.

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NANI-MOCENIGO, PALAZZO. (Now Hotel Danieli.) A glorious example of the
central Gothic, nearly contemporary with the finest part of the Ducal
Palace. Though less impressive in effect than the Casa Foscari or Casa
Bernardo, it is of purer architecture than either: and quite unique in
the delicacy of the form of the cusps in the central group of windows,
which are shaped like broad scimitars, the upper foil of the windows
being very small. If the traveller will compare these windows with
the neighboring traceries of the Ducal Palace, he will easily perceive
the peculiarity.

NICOLO DEL LIDO, CHURCH OF ST. Of no importance.

NOME DI GESU, CHURCH OF THE. Of no importance.

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ORFANI, CHURCH OF THE. Of no importance.

ORTO, CHURCH OF STA. MARIA, DELL'. An interesting example of Renaissance
Gothic, the traceries of the windows being very rich and quaint.

It contains four most important Tintorets: "The Last Judgment," "The
Worship of the Golden Calf," "The Presentation of the Virgin," and
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