Camminando per Palazzo Ducale, ci sono momenti in cui il tempo sembra sospendersi. Si alza lo sguardo, e tra le cornici dorate dei soffitti appare Venezia, che sullo sfondo di un cielo dipinto di lapislazzuli continua a regnare, immutabile Regina dei Mari.
Bionda, trionfante, con lo scettro in mano, vestita d’oro e d’ermellino o mentre riceve la corona: Venezia come una Regina. Così la rappresentarono Paolo Veronese nel Rinascimento e, due secoli più tardi, Tiepolo, suo fecondo erede.
Die Biennale von Venedig ist mehr als nur eine Kunstausstellung – sie ist ein immersives Kunsterlebnis. Alle zwei Jahre verwandelt dieses Ereignis Venedig in eine dynamische Leinwand der Kreativität.
The Venice Biennale is more than just an exhibition – it’s an immersive art experience. Held every two years, this event transforms Venice into a dynamic canvas of creativity.
Curator Hashim Sarkis, architect, professor and researcher at MIT in Boston, presents this year a multidisciplinary Biennale involving architects, researchers and artists. To all of them, Sarkis asked to imagine the ways of the future coexistence between men and other living species.
Through the two locations of the Giardini and the Arsenale you see proposals and suggestions from all over the world.
I’m very proud to have assisted journalist Neil Robbins in the final reading of his thoughtful book: Venice, an Odyssey.
Memories of the city he had seen when he was a student cross the different reality of Venice today.
A profound reportage on the environmental, social, and economic challenges of Venice today. I warmly recommend it to anyone interested in the complicated relationship between cultural heritage, economic profit, and environmental issues.
A rich exhibition of 18thcentury Venetian art will bring you closer to the light and gentle spirit of the Rococo.
Masterpieces by great artists like Canaletto and Tiepolo dominates in the former apartment of the Doge; you can admire the bright pastel palette of Tiepolo and the cityscapes full of air and light of Canaletto. You can indulge in details that show daily life in the 18thcentury in the vedute and be captivated by the sensuousness of the figures in mythological stories.
Venedig war die größte Stadt über die Alpen, wo man über die neuen Ideen von Luther diskutieren konnte. Die Regierung war zwar katholisch aber in der reichen Hauptstadt war eine gewisse Toleranz üblich.
Most happy to share one of the many beautiful reviews, in German, on the volume I made together with the German photographer Norbert Heyl about the Gardens of Venice!
@Terra Magica Verlag 2017.
»Die Gärten von Venedig« von Cristina Gregorin, Norbert Heyl
I’m happy to share a very useful set of information and tips for our many visitors! The handbook has been elaborated by my friends of the Gruppo 25 aprile: “a group of Venetians, “native” and not (Venetians by choice, in all cases) (…) now risk being forced out of our environment (…) because of the cost of living and the lack of appropriate job opportunities.”
As we Venetians are pleased to have you as a visitor in our magnificent city, full of art treasures and with a long and extraordinary history, we’d love to prevent you from being cheated.
This information has been conceived especially for the time of Carnival but they are useful all year round.
Santa Maria dei Miracoli
Deutscher Text am Ende.
Ezra Pound called it a ‘jewel box’; today it is one of the most popular churches to celebrate a wedding. The Miracoli church is intimate and at the same time spectacular hidden shrine of Venice.
Dedicated to the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary, but called by everyone Our Lady of the Miracles because of a miraculous image of the Virgin Mary standing above the main altar, this late 15th- century church is a symbol of the Venice of that time: rich, with a sophisticated sense of beauty, proud to carry on the classical legacy of the antique world, and proud of its very miracle: to stand on the water, like the church itself.