Bridge of Sighs
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Views
of the Palazzo Ducale
The Bridge connected the Palazzo
Ducale with the prison. The convicted prisoners would take their last steps
of freedom across the bridge and it was said you could hear the crying
of their lovers below. And from this, the bridge gets its name: the Bridge
of Sighs.
Ralph Curtis painted this exact scene
in one of his works:
The
Bridge of Sighs
Ralph
Wormeley Curtis (1854-1922)
John Sargent would paint the bridge
in watercolors
Bridge
of Sighs
1904
John
Singer Sargent
The bridge was built around 1600,
significantly after the Council of Ten and the advent of the secrete state
police, but it has always been associated, especially today, with a symbol
of that period -- though be it belated.
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