Long a city of aristocrats, luxury goods and trade, Venice has an amazing culture. Its fantasy-world atmosphere of elegant decay is like nowhere else in Europe. But with souvenir hawkers everywhere ...

Venetian painting has long been famous, and so much has been commented on. Early in the nineteenth century, Hegel, who never got to Italy, offered some evocative notes. Later in that century, Walter ...

You can learn something about a culture from its origin myth. Like most boys growing up in Southern California, I believed ...

"Piano nobile" in every sense, Palazzo Clary has played host to a parade of dignitaries throughout its five-century history. In a city of such singular beauty as Venice, it’s hard to know which way to ...