Pictured is Saint Andrew above the entrance to Sant`Andrea dei Pescivendoli, a deconsecrated 17th century chapel near the Jewish Ghetto. An inscription over the lintel of the doorcase, reads Locus orationis venditorum piscium which translates `The place of prayer of those selling fish`. Above this is the fine relief of St Andrew, carrying his X-shaped cross. A boat on a rough sea is behind him, and a fish is apparently trying to chew his robe as he watches it. There is a putto`s head in a scallop shell above him, and the frame is flanked by a pair of volutes with ribbons, floral motifs and acanthus leaves.
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