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The head of Aretino on the Sacristy door

Sansovino’s bronze Sacristy door, on the apse wall of the presbytery: the portrait heads are at the corners of the two panels
Sansovino’s bronze Sacristy door, on the apse wall of the presbytery: the portrait heads are at the corners of the two panels Photo: Sailko, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 3.0

As you pass by, your eyes are drawn to the great reliefs — the Entombment and the Resurrection, the reclining prophets and the Evangelists — and you may miss them: six bronze heads peering out from small frames at the corners of the two panels. They are celebrities of 16th-century Venice, cast into the Sacristy door.

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