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Not a carnival costume but rather a symbol of death, used to remember how much pain and suffering the disease brought to Venice. The shape of the curved beak on the white mask quickly brings to mind the beak of a vulture, a bird notoriously…

The Teatro della Murata, founded with the name of Teatrino della Murata, is a space that hosts about 70 spectators. The theater was created from a warehouse in the center of Mestre. The building that houses the theater is connected to what remains…

Palazzo Porto-Colleoni-Thiene, commonly known under the name of Castello di Thiene, was built in 1450 at the behest of Francesco Porto, a member of one of the wealthiest families in the Vicenza area, for the storage of agricultural products.…

Among his works, the most significant are: the frescoes of the archiepiscopal palace of Udine (1726-30), the canvases for the Scuola del Carmine in Venice which represent one of his pearls (1743) and the frescoes for the residence of Carlo Filippo…

Domenico Robusti, known as Tintoretto after his father Jacopo, was born in Venice in 1560. Until his father's death in 1594, his works were and still are confused with those of Jacopo, mainly due to the commissions that were mostly sought from the…

The Casa del Tintoretto is a 15th-century Gothic-style palace, tall and narrow with a splendid triple lancet window on the first floor. On its façade is a small marble statue representing Hercules with a club and a plaque commemorating Jacopo…

Jacopo Robusti was born in Venice in 1519, nicknamed Tintoretto due to the his Baptist father’s profession. One of the paintings that greatly contributed to his fame was that executed in the middle of the century for the Scuola Grande di San Marco.…

Amongst Cadore's earliest achievements are the frescoes on the ground facade of the Fondaco dei Tedeschi in 1508-1509. At the same time, Giorgione was working on the façade on the Grand Canal. The programme of the entire decoration, which was…

Life Niccolò Tommaseo was born in Sibenik, a small town in Dalmatia that is now a Croatian town (Sibenik). Sibenik was first a Venetian possession, then passed to the French, and from 1814 it was under the rule of Austria. His studies began in Split…

Tommaso Giannotti was born on 16 August 1493 in Ravenna into a bourgeois family that allowed him to study mathematics, literature and astrology in his home city and to continue with a university degree in'artibus et medicinae' in Bolognain 1516; the…

He was 71 years old (he was born in 1343) and was affectionately called Tommasone. He was a bachelor, but with a natural daughter; he had a good military and diplomatic background. On 24 January 1405 m.v. he was elected procurator of St Mark de…

The theater arrived in Mestre at the end of the eighteenth century, thanks to the Balbi brothers and the Venetian architect Maccaruzzi. Finally Mestre, a holiday resort at the time, was enriched with a cultural space. With the fall of the Republic…