The 2011 Italian pavilion at the Arsenale

If you find yourself in Venice while the art biennale going on, you'll soon become familiar with these two terms: Arsenale and Giardini, the two main venues for exhibitions. The national pavilions are at the Giardini (gardens). The Arsenale is made up of the  buildings that used to be the fortified shipyards at those times when Venice was a large commercial power in the Mediterranean sea back in the XV /XVI centuries. It's a huge, historical, quiet and amazing place right by the canals!
This year the Italian pavilion at the Arsenale had a section showing a large number of paintings in all the styles you can possibly imagine. I would like to show you some of these. This is the work of Michaelangelo's heirs and grand grand grand... children.

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With Hong Kong's artist "the frog king" and his exhibition at the biennale.
You are supposed to use the props and costumes to disguise yourself so that they take a picture of you. The photo will then used to be part of the installation. Fun fun fun and crazy space.

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Summer quiz 1

What does this XVI century lady have in common with Madonna?

Painter: Bernardino Licinio, Portrait of a lady

Accademia Galleries, Venice

please don't answer, I'm joking

Metrosexual ?

Vittore Carpaccio: Miracle of the Relic of the True Cross (1494)

Accademia Galleries, Venice



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The bag without the mystics

Nicolo di Pietro, L'arrivo dei Re Magi, detail (XV century)

Accademia Galleries

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Quote

Yessss, I finally found Stendhal's quote that inaugurated the very famous syndrome. In a quite unexpected way I must say. Thank you vueling.




" I had reached that stage of excitement where one feels the heavenly sensations granted by the Arts and one's most passional feelings. As I emerged from the porch of Santa Croce, I was seized with a fierce palpitation of the heart; the well-spring of life was dried up within me, and I walked in constant fear of falling to the ground"

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Naples and Florence. A Journey from Milan to Reggio

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related article that goes more with the times: 
 this entry on Jonathan Jones' blog in The Guardian newspaper:  Does great art make you ill? : Scientists are to monitor the vital signs of tourists in Florence after they see works of art – to test if Stendhal syndrome exists




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Postcard from Venice

 

The Duke's Palace

advertising Verona's opera festival

St Mark's façade



St Mark's ceiling

view from the bridge of sighs

the bridge of sighs, inside  

walls decorated with grotesque inside the Correr museum

the very famous Murano

Sunset in my favourite sestiere

The bookshop with a gondola inside, and the owner will tell you "I'm your Casanova" when you leave...

near the Rialto Bridge, intense concentration

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Spontaneously generated installation in Venice I

The magic of drawing

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Bellini, you kill me

Ideas to sign your paintings

                                                               from paintings in the Accademia Galleries

I love international Gothic

and the more contemporary art I see the more I want to know everything there is to know about Italian art of the XIV and XV centuries. Is it serious, doctor?

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Painting at the Correr Museum

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Windowshopping: dresses

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lovely, avoid for Friday night though

Streets of Venice

You can't miss them. They're everywhere, advertising different events and exhibitions that take part in the Biennale.



Wow, it's been a while! I have been really looking forward to being back here uploading images you may like .  So I hope you enjoy the pictures I took while I spent a few days in Venice last month.

Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to the first ever las-palabras-magicas

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