Albrecht Dürer and the Rhinoceros “Imagine trying to draw a rhinoceros without ever having seen one, relying solely on someone…
Recommended exhibitions in Venice Which exhibitions to visit in Venice? Some people miss the fervor, the excitement that the Venice…
The vision of Venice What is the vision of Venice that we have in mind? How do we imagine it?…
Punta della Dogana and François Pinault The Pinault Collection is a renowned private art collection owned by François Pinault, an important art…
Lions and Lioness There seem to be a few too many animals and libraries in this title, but all the…
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…
Reflecting on climate change at the Prada Foundation in Venice Everybody Talks About the Weather was the exhibition hosted by…
Venice: the golden basilica When one thinks of gold in Venice, one inevitably thinks of the Basilica d’Oro, St. Mark’s…
Towards Modernity – Venice, a City of the Past Tommaso Marinetti, the eclectic founder of the Futurist Movement, proposed in…
Unusual 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 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 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…
Neuroscience can help us understand art? During the Architecture Biennale in 2021, we saw at the Arsenale the installation Connetcome…
Venice, an accessible city Last week I came across a valuable little photography exhibit that made me think of Venice…
Murano glass in the Peggy Guggenheim collection Peggy Guggenheim and Murano glass is a relationship that would not immediately spring…
Glass animals in the Pierre Rosenberg Collection Le Stanze del vetro is situated on the island of San Giorgio Maggiore…
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…