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     Iron art works in Venice and their restoration
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    By Luisella Romeo, blogseevenice
    In Venetian arts and crafts
    Posted February 26, 2020

    Iron art works in Venice and their restoration

    Iron is the name of a major side-walk in Venice, by the Rialto bridge: “riva del ferro”. This area is close to the Fondaco dei Tedeschi, the ancient warehouse of the Northern European merchants, [...]

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     Libraries in Venice: the project Psalm by Edmund de Waal
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    By Luisella Romeo, blogseevenice
    In Venetian art, Venetian history
    Posted September 29, 2019

    Libraries in Venice: the project Psalm by Edmund de Waal

    Libraries in Venice are silent places reflecting hundreds and hundreds of years of the history of this city and its over one million human voices. Visiting libraries while visiting Venice is [...]

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     Gondola builders in Venice: the courage of the Tramontin sisters
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    By Luisella Romeo, blogseevenice
    In Venetian arts and crafts, Venetian traditions
    Posted June 29, 2019

    Gondola builders in Venice: the courage of the Tramontin sisters

    Gondola builders and the true icon of Venice Gondola builders: they are the ones that turned the gondola into the most iconic image of Venice. Is there still anybody that doesn’t connect it to [...]

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     A boat that helped create a miracle called Venice, the trabacolo
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    By Luisella Romeo, blogseevenice
    In Venetian arts and crafts, Venetian history
    Posted April 29, 2018

    A boat that helped create a miracle called Venice, the trabacolo

    A boat as an icon of Venice A boat is for sure the most iconic thing you can imagine describing the city of Venice. I am sure you are thinking of a black lacquered, slow and silent gondola, [...]

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     Plundered art and heritage in Venetian history
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    By Luisella Romeo, blogseevenice
    In Venetian art, Venetian history
    Posted May 29, 2017

    Plundered art and heritage in Venetian history

    One needs to plunder art to found an empire! When conquering a country, you cannot be happy just to get their land, their wealth or the lives of its inhabitants. It must affect history, which [...]

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     A façade deserves attention: Venice and its veneer
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    By Luisella Romeo, blogseevenice
    In Venetian art, Venetian history
    Posted September 28, 2016

    A façade deserves attention: Venice and its veneer

    Venice is a city where appearance has always mattered and this shows in the façades of the buildings. A triumph of make-up: whether it expressed the immense wealth of a family or the sublimation [...]

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     Save Bevilacqua La Masa! Young artists in Venice
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    By Luisella Romeo, blogseevenice
    In Venetian art, Venetian history, Venice and tourism
    Posted August 28, 2016

    Save Bevilacqua La Masa! Young artists in Venice

    “There is no reason to feel like Cinderella: all over Italy there is nothing like it, such a long life, such burning vitality”. So wrote the director Angela Vettese in 1990 about the BLM [...]

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     Venice and its water city space
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    By Luisella Romeo, blogseevenice
    In Venetian history, Venetian traditions
    Posted July 24, 2016

    Venice and its water city space

    “about the fourth watch of the night he cometh unto them, walking on the sea” (Gospel of Mark c.66-70) Water surely can be viewed as a treacherous element you would be safer to keep [...]

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     What is a stool in Venice?
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    By Luisella Romeo, blogseevenice
    In Venice and tourism
    Posted January 21, 2015

    What is a stool in Venice?

    What is a stool in Venice? … please be patient and read it till the end 🙂 I am reading an interesting booklet written by Salvatore Settis (I am afraid available only in Italian) and [...]

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