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This has always been one of my favorite interior spaces in which to find myself in the late afternoon: this image is from just a couple of d...

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"In Venice," Gabriele D'Annunzio writes in Il fuoco , "one cannot think except through images." With the image ...

The Presentation of Jesus at the Temple , by Giovanni Bellini (left) and Andrea Mantegna (right) Until 1 July you can still catch the Q...

Actually, it's within the walled garden of the Querini Stampalia Museum where the Chinese artist Tong Yanrunan is painting an open ai...

Painted in 1560, Titian's Sapienza (or Wisdom) was situated on the ceiling of the antechamber some 30 years before it became the Stat...

A 16th-century bust of a sober man in the classical style is haunted by a Hellenistic sculpture of the dionysian figure Silenius from the ...

Gaudy as the handles to the French doors of the piano nobile of Palazzo Grassi are (see an example of one above), I recently turned to t...

A detail from one of the great large works by one of the giants of Venetian painting on display in the Accademia--which I won't id...

Every time I happen into Palazzo Loredan, the beautiful exhibition space of the Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti located on C...

The job of these four models was to go all ga-ga over the crystal or gem or whatever the little commodity they're holding was, but wh...

Though it makes for an interesting backdrop, Doug Wheeler's "D-N SF 12 PG VI 14" really must be seen in person You can t...

Prominent among the other works of Mariano Fortuny in this image is one of his famous classically-inspired gowns, while two glass pieces b...

I believe it was less than a month ago that I saw two headlines in a local newspaper about the large billboard covering much of the Ala N...