The Bucintoro at the Molo on Ascension Day Animals He probably first trained with

He probably first trained with his father and is said to have also studied with Frans Hals

The sensual nature of the picture

shows that it stayed within the Morris family until 1938

has at length here attained to the honour of originality'

The composition derives from a type established by Quentin Metsys (see particularly his 'Crucifixion' in the National Gallery of Canada

The Bucintoro at the Molo on Ascension Day Animals He probably first trained withThe Bucentaur, or 'Bucintoro' was the great Venetian vessel of state. Every year on Ascension Day, the doge left the Molo and put out into the Adriatic to perform the ceremony of the symbolic Wedding of Venice to the Sea by casting a gold ring into the water. Market stalls have been set up in the Piazzetta for the event. The barge shown here on its return to land was the last 'Bucintoro', built in 1724 and destroyed when Napoleon overthrew the