Where would you go?
Venice. You can buy a ticket which will get you into 14 churches and it includes a map. Some of the 14 churches are well-known but others are slightly off the beaten track, so if you try and visit the 14 churches in three days you’ll get to go to places you wouldn’t normally go to. It’s a really good way to have a task ahead of you every day rather than just sitting around drinking coffee.
Would you make any special stops?
The big thing to see is Titian’s Assumption in the Frari. You can see God waiting for Mary in Heaven and the endless sky and the shocked crowd and the angels. Her robes are painted with such glory and gorgeousness. I think the thing to do is get a theme going on the pilgrimage. So I’d visit Tintoretto’s Crucifixion in San Rocco. It comes as an enormous shock because of its scale. And then I’d find myself wondering what other Crucifixion images by Tinteretto can be found in Venice. This is a pilgrimage in the sense that I would be constantly involved in religious paintings.
