The celebration of the carnival derives from very ancient festivities, such as the Greek Dionysian and Roman saturnalians, when for a limited period of time social obligations and hierarchies disappeared.
On 25 March Venice celebrates its birthday. According to Martino Da Canal in his “History of Venice” the date of […]
“If the man who paints only the tree, or the flower, or other surface he sees before him were an […]
A linocut is a type of relief, or block print, very similar to woodblock printing. When you print a linocut, […]
In Venice there are no streets but calli (with a few exceptions, as we learned here), and it’s just the […]
In Venice everything is different from the rest of the world, there’s no doubt. Even the streets are not simple […]
Venice is a unique and special city, and the names of its “streets” are different from any other city in […]
SAVE THE DATE: APRIL 7th It seems like only yesterday when I opened my studio, among problems and hitches… and […]
The year just passed saw the celebration of the bicentennial of the Gallerie dell’Academia, one of the most important Venetian […]
A small introduction: I’m writing this article not to refresh notions studied during geography classes at the primary school, but […]
