The cornice that runs along the top of this frame is Venetian vernacular at its most functional: a row of small corbels projecting from the wall to carry the overhang that throws rainwater clear of the render below. It is not a grand architectural gesture, just a practical one, repeated on buildings across the city with minor variations in spacing and projection. Below it, a single window sits almost perfectly centered in the salmon field, its teal shutters folded back to reveal a plain white reveal and, at the center, a narrow strip of warm wooden casement standing ajar in the dark interior. The composition has the quality of something arranged rather than found — and yet nothing here was arranged at all. Venice simply tends to look like this.
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