Venice
Venetian Renaissance Sources and Documents
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Venice : Sources Geographical, Touristical, and Historical
Here is the Webcam at Piazza San Marco
Venezia Serenissima Virtual Tours all over Venice.
Michael of Rhodes: a Medieval Mariner and his Manuscript "In 1401 a young man named Michael of Rhodes joined the Venetian navy as a lowly galley oarsman. Over the next four decades, he sailed on more than 40 voyages and took part in five major sea battles, rising through the ranks to become a trusted galley commander. Michael documented his life and knowledge in a remarkable manuscript. Only recently rediscovered, it chronicles Michael's service record and includes more than 200 pages of commercial and calendrical computations, a beautifully illustrated section on astrology, some of the earliest surviving portolan aids to navigation, and the world's first known treatise on shipbuilding." See here!
Venice Online Here set to the page on Events in 2006.
Citta' di Venezia The Commune of Venezia.
VENEZIA : il magazine online della provincia di Venezia
Origini della Toponomastica Veneziana Or, the origins of street names and the names of other places in Venice.
Veniceblog. All sorts of on-the-spot news: the World Cup, all known Web cams in Venice, and news.
Venice Finder What's on, where to stay, eat, etc.
A Map of Venice Arranged by monument; some photographs also.
VeNETia For information on today's Venice: touristical, commercial, and somewhat historical.
Stranieri in Italia Useful information for foreigners living in Italy.
Save Venice, Inc Information on the U.S.-based organization's conservation and restoration activities.
Venice in Peril The British equivalent of "Save Venice".
A site on Venice by Diana Wright.
Webcam! A View of the Grand Canal
Gondola Preservation Institute
Libreria Sansovino Great bookstore by the Bacino.
Carnevale
Carnival of Venice On the next Carnival, and other ideas. Lots of ads.
The Masks of Carnevale and other topics for 2006.
Schedule for Carnevale 2006 and links to other related sites.
Language Studies : Latin Paleography and Online Dictionaries of the Venetian dialect
- Latin Paleography and Medieval Latin
- Florio's 1611 Italian/English Dictionary: Queen Anna's New World of Words
- Dizionario Veneto-italiano
The list below was compiled by Vittorio Volpi, and originally posted on serenissima@yahoogroups.com in October,2004.
Sources Art Historical
- Events and Exhibitions in Venice Revised each year.
- What's Going On In Venice Slightly confused site--doesn't really have a name--I made one up. But it does seem very detailed--historical more than touristical.
- 2008 Biennale di Venezia. English site available also.
- Andrea Palladio: 500 years of architectural wonders Exhibition in Venice and Vicenza.
- Festa della Madonna della Salute
- Festa del Redentore
- Gondola Days : Isabella Stewart Gardner e il suo mondo a Palazzo Barbaro-Curtis. An exhibition at the Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana.
- Online version of the exhibition, "Turner and Venice" with links to others.
- Hypnerotomachia Poliphili An electronic facsimile of the original published in Venice in 1499. Takes ages to load but it's worth it.
- Venetian Architecture A thorough job by an architect.
- Palazzo Grassi The eighteenth-century palace is now a museum of contemporary art. The rather over-produced site includes a three-dimensional model of Palazzo Grassi.
- Ca'Dario The beginnings of a good site.
- Storia di Venezia Sources historical and cultural.
- "An Account of Famed Venice" Bad poem with links to good photos.
- Art and Architecture of Venice: the Cornaro Family Traces their patronage through several centuries and throughout Italy.
- The Peggy Guggenheim Collection Be sure to catch the doggie burial ground.
Venetian Research Institutes and Libraries
- OPAC This is an online searchable index to all the major libraries in Italy.
- VKK: Virtual Catalogue for Art History A searchable catalogue for libraries throughout Europe.
- Archivio di Stato di Venezia A small information site with a nifty aerial view of the Frari where the Archivio is located. Also information on restoration projects, links to other institutions, and other useful connections.
- Guida Generale degli Archivi di Stato Italiani
- Archivio Storico del Patriarcato di Venezia.
- Archivi storici della Chiesa di Venezia
- Ateneo Veneto
- Biblioteca Marciana Not only historical and contemporary information about the Marciana Library, but many links to other Venetian subjects. In Italian and English. [Note: as of 9/2008 links to the three most important online catalogs were down.]
- Fondazione Giorgio Cini Located on the island of San Giorgio, this is a research institute and library dedicated to the history and culture of Venice. English version also.
- Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Art Located in Palazzo Loredan a Santo Stefano.
Various Art and Historical Sources for Venice
- Pompeo Molmenti's La Storia di Venezia nella vita privata Bergamo, 1927. A site very much in progress, and already very large.
- Seicento Venice : A bibliography
- Glossary of Renaissance Dress and Textile Terms Not specifically Venetian, but looks very useful. A compilation from several sources.
Movies Set in Venice
- A list from IMDb
- Senso. 1954. Directed by Luchino Visconti. Austrians vs
Italians in 19th century Venice. Quadrio's vs. Florian's!
A scene, courtesy of Youtube. - Summertime Directed by David Lean. 1955. One of the first truly lavish Technicolor movies.
- Death in Venice 1971. Directed by Luchino Visconti.
- Don't Look Now 1973. Directed by Nicholas Roeg. Sinister Venice. the trailer
- Don Giovanni 1979.
Directed by Joseph Losey, and set almost entirely in Palladian villas.
The Trailer (1979) - The Comfort of Strangers 1991. Directed by Paul Schrader. Sinister Venice.
- The Wings of the Dove Almost all of the story is played out in Venice. Milly Theale lives in the Palazzo Barbaro-Curtis, where James had stayed during his visits to Venice. Released Nov. 1997. The trailer
- Dangerous Beauty A 1998 movie based upon the life of Veronica Franco, courtesan and poet in 16th-century Venice. A bit of the film.
- The Merchant of Venice. With Al Pacino. 2004. Links to trailers and reviews.
- Casanova. With various hunks. 2005.