Venice II: The proper pic spam :)
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selenakBologna did indeed come through and is providing me with good wi fi, which means uploading, which means at last a proper extensive pictorial treatment of Venice the singularly beautiful.
As mentioned the last time, of course I visited the Doge's palace and its piombi. Have a look inside. This is where you could slit in your anonymous denounciatons:
Which then made people end up here:
Like I said, go, Casanova, for staging a jail break out of that one. Of course, this wasn't what the state senators saw on a daily basis. (Unless someone had denounced them. They were treated to this courtyard instead:
And now for something more intimate. Like the oldest bridge in Venice:
Personally, I would be scared not because of the age but because of the lacking railing, but hey. I also liked this one:
And two canals crossing, as they do here:
As far as piazzas are concerned, Venice has more than the two most famous ones to offer. Take the one of St. Maria Formosa:
Casanova managed to land himself patrons through most of his life - this is how he ended up as a librarian in Bohemia, after all - but these relationships did occasionally come to a hasty ending. As when he was chums with a senator called Malipiero who was old enough to have lost all his teeth, but not his appetites; so the senator wasn't keen on Casanova getting even chummier with the senator's mistressin in this house:
Oddly enough, Casanova was born in the Calle Malipiero, though we don't know in which house. His parents were both actors, with his mother Zanetta good enough so that Goldoni wrote a play for her, and the theatre she acted in was owned by Michiel Grimani. Now the Grimani were among Venice's richest and most influential families; if you've ever watched the RTD Casanova, that's where he got the name for Casanova's rival from, who otherwise is an invented character. Otoh Casanova thought Michiel Grimani might have been his biological father, or maybe he just wrote that to tick the family off. Either way, the Grimani clan lived in style. Today their palazzo houses a permanent Caneletto exhibition, but the true attraction are the ceilings, differently painted and decorated for each single room. It's awesome. Two choice and illegally photographed examples:
If the later reminds you, as it did me, of the Pantheon in Rome, that's no coincidence. This room where was where the family kept their antiques.
While we're talking inside decoration, have a look at the newly restored famous opera house, La Fenice:
Charles Burney reports that when in 1774 they couldn't get a production sold out, the gondolieri were offered free seats in order to fill the house. Sadly, this is no longer the case. I had to pay for my ticket, but then, I don't have a gondola.
Let's move outside again. St. Giacomo d' Orio:
St. Maria dei Miracoli:
Vivaldi's favourite church, name shorted to "Pieta", where I got a free concert because the choir was rehearsing for the evening:
There was some noise outside, because of some sailing cup thing going on, so have a last look at the bay to wrap up the splendour that is Venice:
As mentioned the last time, of course I visited the Doge's palace and its piombi. Have a look inside. This is where you could slit in your anonymous denounciatons:
Which then made people end up here:
Like I said, go, Casanova, for staging a jail break out of that one. Of course, this wasn't what the state senators saw on a daily basis. (Unless someone had denounced them. They were treated to this courtyard instead:
And now for something more intimate. Like the oldest bridge in Venice:
Personally, I would be scared not because of the age but because of the lacking railing, but hey. I also liked this one:
And two canals crossing, as they do here:
As far as piazzas are concerned, Venice has more than the two most famous ones to offer. Take the one of St. Maria Formosa:
Casanova managed to land himself patrons through most of his life - this is how he ended up as a librarian in Bohemia, after all - but these relationships did occasionally come to a hasty ending. As when he was chums with a senator called Malipiero who was old enough to have lost all his teeth, but not his appetites; so the senator wasn't keen on Casanova getting even chummier with the senator's mistressin in this house:
Oddly enough, Casanova was born in the Calle Malipiero, though we don't know in which house. His parents were both actors, with his mother Zanetta good enough so that Goldoni wrote a play for her, and the theatre she acted in was owned by Michiel Grimani. Now the Grimani were among Venice's richest and most influential families; if you've ever watched the RTD Casanova, that's where he got the name for Casanova's rival from, who otherwise is an invented character. Otoh Casanova thought Michiel Grimani might have been his biological father, or maybe he just wrote that to tick the family off. Either way, the Grimani clan lived in style. Today their palazzo houses a permanent Caneletto exhibition, but the true attraction are the ceilings, differently painted and decorated for each single room. It's awesome. Two choice and illegally photographed examples:
If the later reminds you, as it did me, of the Pantheon in Rome, that's no coincidence. This room where was where the family kept their antiques.
While we're talking inside decoration, have a look at the newly restored famous opera house, La Fenice:
Charles Burney reports that when in 1774 they couldn't get a production sold out, the gondolieri were offered free seats in order to fill the house. Sadly, this is no longer the case. I had to pay for my ticket, but then, I don't have a gondola.
Let's move outside again. St. Giacomo d' Orio:
St. Maria dei Miracoli:
Vivaldi's favourite church, name shorted to "Pieta", where I got a free concert because the choir was rehearsing for the evening:
There was some noise outside, because of some sailing cup thing going on, so have a last look at the bay to wrap up the splendour that is Venice:
