In a corner of the cell, in a pool of light directly under a small window, a veiled woman has just finished her prayers.

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The evening sky was pale and empty and the light from the kitchen window made a yellow square reflection in the darkening yard.

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In the half-light, the proscenium glowed like a bright department-store window, which shadowy people behind it were dressing.

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In the Contarini Chapel the picture hangs under a real window whose light, depending on the time of day, does to the painting exactly what Caravaggio's light does within it.

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Then, reaching the last room, bathed in unexpected natural light, Ms Horn points through the window to a restored building outside, which used to lie behind the wall.

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The light in my window it burns for a week.

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This was how we spoke of the local people: they were souls, they were transient spirits, a face in the window of a passing car, runny with reflected light, or a long street with a shovel jutting from a snowbank, no one in sight.

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