A painting submitted by a member of the public ... The work, now known to be The Approach to Venice or Venice from the Lagoon (around 1840), depicts an incoming storm and had been in the family ...
Venice, steeped in history and full of the treasures of bygone ages, usually stands for tradition. But every two years this beautiful city built on a lagoon hosts the art world’s most important ...
The Venetian lagoon painting—submitted by a member of the public to Christie's digital appraisal service—comes to auction in New York. The Des Moines Art Center, a contemporary art museum in Iowa, has ...
For three decades, a single idea on how to safeguard Venice and its lagoon from sinking beneath the sea has held sway: a wall of hinged barriers at each of the three entrances to the lagoon that ...
The Accademia houses classical paintings from the Renaissance ... that there's no way to walk off of Venice: The compilation of islands is surrounded by a lagoon. You should also note that ...