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A journey into eighteenth-century Venice
- May 13, 2023
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‘Ca’ Rezzonico’ (photo by Didier Descouens), a tremendous resource on Google Arts & Culture - here ‘Casanova in Paris: The Shadows of the King’ is freely available here. Long form articles on Casanova’s life and times are freely available here. #venice #journey #eighteenthcentury #history #rezzonico -
Victorian Venice
- February 11, 2023
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If you’re like me, you don’t need much of an excuse to immerse yourself in pictures of Venice. Here’s a simple but very effective idea. Why not collect together paintings to re-create a sense of what the city looked like at one particular period? ‘How Venice Looked to Victorian Travelers c1890’ does precisely that - -
Behind the mask in 18th-century Venice
- December 3, 2022
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An interesting article on the use and significance of Venetian masks, published by NOMA (New Orleans Museum of Art) in conjunction with their exhibition ‘A Life of Seduction: Venice in the 1700s’ – here. ‘Casanova in Paris: The Shadows of the King’ is now freely available here. 27 long form articles on Casanova’s life
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