The Inventory of the Goods of an Ancient Venetian Perfumer’s Shop The inventory of the ancient workshop of a Venetian…
The Gifts of Ambassadors It is known that embassies arriving in Europe from the Near Middle-East or Africa brought marvelous…
Between abstract and figurative While the choices made by Adriano Pedrosa, curator of the 60th Venice Biennale have favored artists…
People have always been fascinated by the act of predicting or having their future predicted with tarot cards. Some are…
Bernardo Bellotto at the Cini Gallery The Cini Gallery is one of the lesser-known museums in Venice, a hidden gem…
It seems strange to think that some of the most influential architects of the 20th century, such as Frank Lloyd…
The Vajont tragedy The Vajont disaster occurred on the evening of October 9, 1963, in the newly constructed artificial hydroelectric…
Reflecting on climate change at the Prada Foundation in Venice Everybody Talks About the Weather was the exhibition hosted by…
The masterpieces from the National Gallery of Umbria meet contemporary art in Venice The gold of the Cà d’Oro (Franchetti…
Towards Modernity – Venice, a City of the Past Tommaso Marinetti, the eclectic founder of the Futurist Movement, proposed in…
Unsual Gardens in Venice -2 Peggy Guggenheim collection The garden of the Peggy Guggenheim Foundation is a hidden gem that…
Rosalba Carriera was a famous Venetian painter of the 18th century. She was born in Venice in 1675. Renowned for…
Venice high tides Over the past fifty years, Venice has faced a significant environmental challenge: high tides. Due to its…
Imago Iustitiae is the title of an exhibition at the Correr Museum in Venice dedicated to the iconography of justice…
Venice is usually considered a city without gardens, in reality. The city has many gardens, but they are not large…
Simon Leigh in Venice I admired for the first time the monumental works of Simon Leigh, created for the Biennale…
The last exposition of Vittore Carpaccio in Venice The last exhibition of Vittore Carpaccio in the Doge’s palace in Venice…
The American Pavilon in Venice For the first time the American artist Simone Leigh exhibits her sculptures in Venice. She…
Painting stories Paula Rego painted stories, she needed a story to paint. At the beginning of her career she had…
The Milk of dreams, the title of the 59th edition of Biennale of Art Venezia 2022 curated by Cecilia Alemani,…
A fresco in a case “In the air raid of the 11th of March, 1944, the Ovetari Chapel was razed…
Text and Pictures by Herman H. Van Doorn The first time I visited Venice as a teenager the city made…
I had no idea what was a Babinski sign on a small child up to the moment I came across…
Venice, an accessible city Last week I came across a valuable little photography exhibit that made me think of Venice…
Murano glass in the Guggenheim collection Peggy Guggenheim loved contemporary art, she considered ‘the art of her century’ something to…
Glass animals in the Pierre Rosenberg Collection Le Stanze del vetro is situated on the island of San Giorgio Maggiore…
American framing – The hands that built America There is a small piece of United States in Venice, it is…
For a cardinal of the Holy Roman Church to die in Rome and have a funeral chapel built in the…
The International Exhibition of Architecture Biennale Venezia 2021 The title of this edition of the International Architecture Exhibition, Biennale Architettura…