Showing posts with label Churches in Venice. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Churches in Venice. Show all posts
Saturday, March 15, 2025

Angel in Late Afternoon Light

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19 March 2013
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Thursday, August 29, 2024

Light and Shadow, Basilica Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari

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Taken while easing into the city after a trans-atlantic ovenight flight: watching afternoon sunlight pass steadily over the long-immobile fi...
Tuesday, August 27, 2024

Chiesa della Santa Selfie, or, Church of the Holy Selfie

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23 July 2024 Viewed from afar within the vast space of the church of Santi Giovanni e Paolo the object looked liked a  rectangular wood dini...
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Thursday, July 25, 2024

SS Giovanni e Paolo, Today

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Tuesday, July 16, 2024

Chiaroscuro: Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari, This Afternoon

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We're back in Venice for the first time since we moved (regrettably) almost exactly 3 years ago today, after having lived here full-time...
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Tuesday, January 16, 2024

Confessionals, San Marco

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8 January 2014
Saturday, December 9, 2023

San Giorgio Maggiore

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 I've posted this image before, but still haven't gotten it quite right in terms of conveying the day's fog. I took it with a sm...
Tuesday, October 3, 2023

Chiaroscuro, Church of San Zaccaria

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29 September 2015  
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Wednesday, July 12, 2023

One of the Most Beautiful Paintings in Venice Costs Nothing to See (Unless You Pay to Illuminate It)

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Giovanni Bellini's altarpiece in the church of San Zaccaria, which I somehow missed seeing the first two times I visited Venice, in spit...
Thursday, January 19, 2023

San Nicolò dei Mendicoli (10 Years Ago Today)

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Saturday, November 19, 2022

Giambattista Tiepolo in Santi Apostoli

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Comunione di Santa Lucia (19 November 2014)
Sunday, October 10, 2021

Shadow and Light, Santi Giovanni e Paolo

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28 September 2015
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Friday, July 9, 2021

High Art: Capturing Giovanni Bellini's Pala Barbarigo in Murano, This Morning

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A photographer stands upon a ladder to focus and trigger the shutter of his camera--itself positioned upon a very tall tripod, two of whose ...
Friday, February 15, 2019

The Patron Saint of Undisturbed Reading Time

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It wouldn't take much effort to properly identify the saint whom the sculpture above is actually supposed to represent, but I must a...
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Wednesday, February 13, 2019

Pietà, Church of San Simeon Piccolo

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For all the intended pathos of this sculpture of Mary holding the dead Jesus, I find the petitions piled up on the floor around it even...
Thursday, January 17, 2019

Looking Up, Basilica di San Marco, This Morning

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Saturday, November 3, 2018

Long Time No See: The Church of the Scalzi

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The massive actual appears here to be supported by its two-dimensional image The church of the Scalzi, or of Santa Maria di Nazareth, a...
Wednesday, August 15, 2018

Celebrating 500 Years of Titian's "Assumption" with Monteverdi in Dei Frari, Today

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It's been 500 years since Titian completed his famous altar piece for the basilica of Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari and this afterno...
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Thursday, July 12, 2018

Sant Maria della Salute, Seen from the South Lagoon

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Saturday, December 16, 2017

Details, Details... Moses and Creatine Monohydrate (in the Church of Madonna dell'Orto)

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A very fit Moses communes with the Almighty in Tintoretto's Adoration of the Golden Calf (detail) Combine creatine Monohydrate...