Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Venice Heritage Museum Creative Director and Board Member Michael Murphy stands inside the new museum that features vintage ...

Periodization, for all the fleeting satisfaction it provides, can cause severe headaches for a historian. “Among the many and various dangers that beset the would-be writer of history,” writes John ...

Until recently, the most accessible one-volume history of Venice was A History of Venice by the late British aristocrat, John Julius Norwich (Vintage, 1989). That excellent work now gives pride of ...

Walk down the Venice Boardwalk and you can feel it instantly: the electricity of a place that has always been a crucible for culture, rebellion, and reinvention. From Jim Morrison scribbling poetry in ...

In the 15th-century painting “Miracle of the Relic of the Cross at the Rialto Bridge,” a Black gondolier calmly rows his client through the center of a frenetic scene. When you picture Venice’s famous ...

When one thinks of Venice and the Jews, the first figure that probably comes to mind is Shylock, literary history’s famous Jewish villain, a moneylender who demands a “pound of flesh” from the titular ...

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