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Renaissance architecture is something travelers coming to Italy connect to Florence. It is of course quite simplistic to search for an exact place where it all started, not to mention when. [...]

Stained glass windows in the history of Venice Stained glass windows in Venice have been known since the end of the 13th century, after glass blowers moved their furnaces to Murano. Florence, [...]

A Renaissance staircase in Venice The Renaissance staircase at the Scuola Grande San Giovanni Evangelista in the district of Santa Croce is a true, hidden jewel of Venice. Designed by Mauro [...]

Monsters. No romance. No glorification. Monstrous creatures often appear in the paintings of some Venetian collections. In these days of fear, a new light is cast over these depictions as if, [...]

St. George’s Anglican Church: sobriety and discreetness St. George’s Anglican Church in Venice is a monument the average visitor hardly notices. When you pass by —and you do, as the [...]

Reaching success in Tintoretto’s life Tintoretto reached fame and success with his art in Venice at the age of thirty (see my previous post about it). His provoking and shocking “Miracle of [...]

Tintoretto was around thirty years old in 1548 when he painted The Miracle of the Slave for the Brotherhood of St. Mark in Venice, the revolutionary manifesto of his art. Two exhibitions [...]

Venice as land sounds like an oxymoron. But there was a time when the traditional source of income for the city, i.e., commerce with the East, was no longer considered promising. Instead, filling [...]

Although surrounded by water Venice has always feared fires. Wood is not just the bedrock of the whole city, it is also what all buildings inside are made of. Technically all constructions in [...]