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Italy Journal 4
ITALY JOURNAL 4
Arsenale stop on Colonna,
Garibaldi street
Venice.
June 23
There were magnificent buildings everywhere, one was the Academia, the Art Gallery of Venice and it went on and on. When we did disembark the water taxi it was to visit the Ca d’Oro, a museum that housed a private collection gifted to the State. It was housed not in a museum but a private home. There was a floor of every kind of marble. There were present day marbles but some that had been used in antiquity, or similar more modern marbles, in order to re- create the effect of ancient floors. It made patterns of circles and from that rose columns and outside the long room was the Grand Canal and a private jetty.
Upstairs were paintings and statues, some furniture pieces, but mostly pieces from the 15th and 16th ceneturies Italian art, the most famous being Mantegna’s St Sebastian. My favourite was an icon of the Vergin Mary and child, with that simplicity of ancient art prior to the renaissance. Another favourite was a picture of three purveyors of the coin exchange because the central figure reminds me strongly of a family member, dressed in sixteenth century dress and beard.
We ate lunch sitting high above the Grand Canal with the world going by in boats and with us looking down on the excitement and the continual motion of the sea everywhere.
From there we walked further into this area passing a lovely closed church with a large statue of a monk in front of it, St Sarpo. We were travelling on to the Ghetto.
Everywhere around the central square the buildings are tall and ancient. The buildings are pink like sugar, brown, some peeling and yet the signs of age are beautiful in this city. The sun continued to shine and the guide was funny and entertaining.
There we saw one of the internal gardens in the city, where gardens are intensely private affairs, one just sees a few trees from a distance, drooping over a tall wall, sometimes with pink blooms, and occasionally as one approaches Garibaldi Street restaurants there’s the smell of jasmine or seringa,.
Travelling home by boat in the rush hour, there were boats everywhere. We were on an express water taxi which felt like the driver was throwing the boat into the wharfs with a crash and grinding the gears and dashing off again like a wild horse. We left the dock, dashed off again, throwing the boat into the heaving turquoise sea and the rush of the water traffic.
We walked home through the Biennale gardens, with tall Cypress trees and a grey statue of Garibaldi. At night in the gathering evening we came across the white Campanale that one can see from sea as one approaches Venice. Beside it is San Pietro and San Anna which is falling down. In the nearby area there are streets that are hushed and houses that are empty, though there is some rejuvenation going on. History and the present collide.
Tonight, there is a thunder storm and it is raining heavily. Lovely to be here.
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Ca' d'Oro - VENEZIA
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what if drinking cocktails at the hotel danieli bar and reading anne's journals about her own stay at the danieli in 1996 was the actual high point of my life and it's all downhill from here
#i cant process what i experienced this weekend#i have too many armand feelings and none of them are coherent#and daniel and marius and bianca and riccardo feelings by proxy#what if i never manage to synthesize this into fic#what if i lived the molloy life too hard and i am driven insane via experience#i need to go back i need another sunset on the ca d'oro balcony thinking about amadeo#but also i can post pics and talk about stuff i saw if like anyone is interested lol#i need a tag what is my venice tag gonna be
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Saint Sebastian @ Galleria Giorgio Franchetti alla Ca' d'Oro, Venezia
#my kink#non me lo potevo perdere#saint sebastian#San Sebastiano#ca' d'oro#venezia#venice#Bottega dei lombardo
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CARPACCIO, Vittore
The Annunciation
1504
Oil and tempera on canvas, 130 x 140 cm
Galleria Franchetti, Ca' d'Oro, Venice
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Day 46: Galleria Giorgio Franchetti alla Ca' d'Oro | Daily Venice for you!
#Venezia#Venice#Italia#Italy#art#Architecture#history#Travel Photography#water#bridge#river#photo#sky#old city#cityscpae#squares#murano#Burano#urban travel#photography#tarvel#Tourism#spring#summer#Europe#venetian carnival#travel#nature#landscape#city
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PALAZZO DUCALE, PUERTA DE LA CARTA
DUCAL PALACE, PAPER DOOR
PALAZZO DUCALE, PORTA DELLA CARTA
(Español / English / Italiano)
La entrada principal del Palacio Ducal recibe el nombre de Porta della Carta ('Puerta del Papel') porque en ella se exponían los decretos oficiales; es de estilo gótico flamígero y presenta en el tímpano un león de San Marcos( simbolo de la Serenissima Repubblica di Venezia) ante el que se arrodilla el dux Foscari
La Porta della Carta, proyecto de los arquitectos Giovanni Bon y Bartolomeo Bon (también autores de la Ca' d'Oro) fue terminado en 1442.
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The main entrance to the Doge's Palace is called Porta della Carta ('Paper Door') because it is where the official decrees were displayed; it is in the flamboyant Gothic style and has a lion of St Mark (symbol of the Serenissima Repubblica di Venezia) in the tympanum, before which the Doge Foscari kneels.
The Porta della Carta, designed by the architects Giovanni Bon and Bartolomeo Bon (also the authors of the Ca' d'Oro) was completed in 1442.
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L'ingresso principale di Palazzo Ducale è chiamato Porta della Carta perché vi si esponevano i decreti ufficiali; è in stile gotico fiorito e presenta nel timpano il leone di San Marco (simbolo della Serenissima Repubblica di Venezia), davanti al quale si inginocchia il Doge Foscari.
La Porta della Carta, progettata dagli architetti Giovanni Bon e Bartolomeo Bon (autori anche della Ca' d'Oro), fu completata nel 1442.
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Real 'Liminal pool', Galleria Giorgio Franchetti alla Ca' d'Oro, Venice (tagged 'waterroom'), by Antonio Monfreda.
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Ride the Rialto
ITALY JOURNAL 3
Blog by Lynne Pearl
Arsenale stop on Colonna,
Garibaldi street
Venice.
10.15 pm
Friday June 9 23
Yesterday we were met at the water taxi stop at Arsenale by our host. We were shown to our place which was adequate, more than as we were in Venice and it felt amazing. The air is so clean as you are surrounded by sea water and sunlight. The light falls on all the beautiful colours around.
What is it like to be in a city without cars? Just try Venice, there are no cars and suddenly things become more manageable and slower, much slower. It is heaven. There are boats everywhere.
Now it’s getting hotter, which is great. This morning we began with fresh vegetables on a boat, like a grocery shop on water. So, we were able to buy peaches, green beans, carrots, zucchini, tomatoes all very fresh, off a boat. How wonderful, to have vegetables so fresh and the shop is a boat.
Then the day began by catching the number 5 boat up the Grand Canal, destination the Ca d’Oro. But first we had to pass the world and everything beautiful by taking a boat on a sunny day in June along the Grand Canal in Venice, stopping but not getting off at just about all the places in history, from a Venetian point of view and much of the world too. They had an enormous number of ships travelling the known and unknown world in search of luxury goods, spices and silks for the market in Europe.
We passed St Mark’s Square where one can see the domes of the church and the wonderful pink and white palaces, the striped posts, the gondolas and the young men who drive them in their traditional black and white striped shirts. There was huge church, white and with huge domes, topped with a Christ in majesty with all the stars around him. The sea water was turquoise blue. As one waits for the water taxi at the pontoon, by the water’s edge it was heaving. The boats pull alongside and people just file off and more get on. There’s push chairs and babies, dogs, and life.
The Rialto is just magnificent, bridges are ornate and white, the buildings decorated and a deep shade of pink brick, everywhere is beauty and the sea with small boats babbling about and somehow nothing crashes into anything else. The sight of the Rialto in real life, not a painting, or a chocolate box and teeming with life was one of my favourite moments, teeming with life, busy with boats and people.
At one point while in the Ca d’Oro we heard a siren and looked out over the balcony at a yellow boat speeding through the traffic, it was a water ambulance, racing to rescue someone, somewhere in this city without cars. When cars aren’t there, the people are friendlier, can stop and talk on the street, in the middle of the road.
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Galleria Giorgio - Palace - Ca' d'Oro, Venice, ITALY
#galleria giorgio#palace in venice#ca' d'oro#venezia italia#venice italy#venecia italia#europe#europa
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Italo Calvino (lyrics), La tigre, Music by Mario Peragallo, ca. 1957-1960, for Giro a vuoto [Le canzoni di Laura Betti], All'insegna del Pesce d'Oro, 1960 [Centro Apice (Archivi della Parola, dell'Immagine e della Comunicazione Editoriale), Università degli studi di Milano, Milano]
#typewriting#music#book#italo calvino#mario peragallo#laura betti#all'insegna del pesce d'oro#centro apice#1950s#1960s
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Pałaso Dogal | Venezia, Veneto.
Information:
Built in the 7th century and reconstructed in the 13th century, this Venetian Gothic landmark features small columned loggias, tracery with quatrefoil openings, ogge arches, and reliefs from capping ornaments to ropework.
Venetian Gothic architecture borrows aesthetics from Byzantine and Islamic architectures. Another design similar to Doge's Palace is the Ca' d'Oro, also found in Venice, Italy.
Photo Credits:
"L'Arcangelo Gabriele annunziante, sull'angolo di Palazzo ducale a Venezia adiacente alla Porta della Carta" by Giovanni Dall'Orto, taken 30th July 2008.
"Venezia , Veneto" by Kaz Ish, taken 12th July 2012.
#Italian#Italy#Venice#Venezia#Italia#Gothic#architecture#Venetian Gothic Architecture#italian architecture#venice architecture#history#doge's palace#venetian gothic
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