¬A¬ Midsummer Ramble in the Dolomites : [untrodden peaks and unfrequented valleys]
Titian, some twelve feet in height, robed and bearded, Stands out against an ultramarine background, looking very like the portrait of a caravan giant at a fair. This picture—a gift to the Commune of Cadore from the artist who painted it — is now the only mural fresco in thè town. Some years ago, one of the old houses in thè piazza, now ruthlessly whitewashed, is said to have borne distinet traces of external deco- rations by Cesare Vecchio, the cousin and pupil of Titian. ■ Turning aside from
thè glowing piazza and following thè downward slope of a bill to thè left of thè Prefet tura, we come, at thè distance of only a few yards, upon another open space, grassy and solitary, sur- rounded on three sides by rambling, dilapidated-looking houses, and opening on thè fourth to a vista of woods and mountains. - In thè midst of this little piazza Stands a massive stone fountain, time-worn and water-worn, surmounted by a statue of Saint Tiziano in the robes and squäre cap of an ecclesiastic