Hanging in a side chapel is a larger-than-life late-Gothic crucifix in painted maple wood, modelled between the end of the 14th century and the first decades of the 15th. The Venetians call it the ’speaking crucifix’, and the nickname is no legend: the sculpture’s head is hollowed out like a shell to house a device — of which a fragment of cord survives — that moved the tongue inside the mouth.