Capital from the Lower Arcade of the Doge's Palace, Venice

After religious and mythological painting, portraiture was the third most important area within Titian’s oeuvre. Around 80 works considered autograph now survive although we know f...

The festival of the Bucintoro was the subject of extensive commentaries by travellers and visitors who witnessed it. It was depicted over the course of the years by artists such as...

Character: description on folk. 4b and 5b, miniature on folk. 5a, 172 x 214 mm. Author apparently Jiří Gabriel Mayer - see here the figure at the end of the miniature description. ...

Canaletto is undoubtedly the most outstanding of the 18th-century Venetian view painters.View paintings or vedute depicting panoramic views of the city and its surrounding areas de...

Canaletto is undoubtedly the most outstanding of the 18th-century Venetian view painters. View paintings or vedute depicting panoramic views of the city and its surrounding areas d...

Character: description, miniature in the middle of the leaf, 120 x 148 mm. Pollen shield. On the right there is half a black crowned eagle with a red tongue in gold. On the left di...

Character: description, miniature in the middle of the leaf, 103 x 135 mm. The shield is divided into black, gold and red twice, and in it on the brown triple top 1) there is a sil...

In December 1577 a fire broke out on the ground floor of the Doge’s Palace in Venice, resulting in serious damage to the decoration, walls, ceilings and furnishings of various room...