Much important Venetian art is religious, while other works are political. More exactly, since the church and the state were mutually supportive, it’s generally impossible to make a hard and ...

Originally an academy, this building was later turned into the Galleria dell'Accademia museum by none other than Napoléon. Today, it's filled with an expansive collection of Venetian art from the ...

The art of Venetian masks 05:02. Venice's very existence inspires wonder, and during Carnival, this city of canals provides a fanciful backdrop for the festivities leading up to Lent.

Art: A Violent Venetian. 3 minute read. TIME. November 29, 1963 12:00 AM GMT-5. O ne wintry night in 1699, in a rain-lashed Venetian tavern, a young artist named Marco Ricci killed a gondolier who ...

It’s clear that Canaletto’s eighteenth-century Venetian art world satisfies all of our defining conditions of modernism. There are his secular subjects, the cityscape; ...

Art A classic Venetian artist gets his big moment at the National Gallery. Although much of Vittore Carpaccio’s best work doesn’t travel, this first retrospective organized outside Italy is a ...

From the long marble steps in front of Venice's railway station, little King Vittorio Emmanuele stepped into a gaily beflagged launch and chuffed off down the serpentine Grand Canal to the ...

The Amon Carter Museum of American Art in Fort Worth is showcasing Sargent, Whistler, and Venetian Glass: American Artists and the Magic of Murano.

In a photograph capturing a momentous friendship, two men stand facing opposite directions, clad in heavy clothes suitable for an Italian winter, looking at a series of frescoes depicting the life of ...