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Fraile mendicante, en Venecia.

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A mendicant friar begging on the streets of Venice. The illustration accompanies an article about Venice. In it, we see a long narrow street, less than six feet wide, paved with flagstones. The buildings are a little run-down, with bricks visible in places beneath the plaster; in the foreground a man stands wearing a monk’s habit and sandals; in his left hand he is holding a bag with another draped over his shoulder and whith his right hand he is taking a small purse from a basket on a string which has been lowered by a lady in a stone-supported balcony above him. He is smiling.

Note: the friar here probably lives through donations and is smiling because of having just received a donation.

The index at the back of the book identifies the artist as L. Passini, which I have taken to be the Austrian painter Ludwig Johann Passini, as the painting is in his style and it’s the right era.

street scenes, people, transactions, commerce, buying, paying, men, women, alleyways, priests, religion, christianity, mendicant priests, costumes, cities

Venice, Veneto, Italy

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