What did Venice and its culture mean to the European area that extends beyond Vienna? This is the question we try to respond to this year, guided by our curiosity about whether Venice was of significance not only to the grand imperial capitals (Vienna and St Petersburg), as analysed in two of (...)

VeneziAltrove has travelled the world in its search for traces of Venetian artistic production. But for years we have put off going to Vienna , even though we knew just the two ciiities and cultures have been. Those given to maliciousness might say deeply for Venice , in fact, knows that (...)

“Of all the clothes and dressing gown Madame de Guermantes wore, those who appear to me as bearing a special meaning, were the ones made by Fortuny on the basis of ancient Venetian drawings.” As Marcel Proust writes in this passage of “The Prisoner”, where even the fugitive Albertine is touched by (...)

Each year, when I read the articles for "VeneziAltrove" I feel the way Mario Luzi expresses all too well in one of his poems: "You revive my expectations" A layman, I am personally amazed ah how automatically one becomes engrossed in the vortex of the diaspora of Venice’s cultural heritage in (...)

In Cicerone, A guide to the enjoyment of works of art in Italy, a milestone in the history of art, Jacob Burckhardt admits that in 1855 in the whole of Italy he does not know of paintings by Antonello da Messina that can “definitely be attributed to him apart from the portrait of a man with (...)

Out of professional habit, I often find myself analyzing phenomena that gradually attract my attention from an opposite point of view. And it is because of this habit, not because of a snobbish temptation to go against the trend, that I have often asked myself what the other side of the (...)

"But what will they say?", the American magnate Henry Clay Frick (1849-1919) asked while standing in front of his sublime works of art. He saw them as “living entities” capable of communicating with the viewer pausing to contemplate them from one of the sofas in the elegant, new building between (...)

“Militaire et mari” sings the tenor in the Figlia del Reggimento (Regiment’s Daughter) holding the scene with more “C” sharps than the history of music remembers. And, for years now, it is in that combination of roles that I find myself each time I pick up this Almanac, (Venezialtrove-almanac of the (...)