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Sunday 19th

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April 19th 2015
Bellini Bellini Bellini. Today is about the family Bellini … and the other Renaissance artists who inhabit the Academia Gallery Museum in Dorsodoro. We finished up our breakfast and arrived just as they opened at 8:15. Being let loose in the museum with all the fabulous works of Bellini (Jacopo, Giovanni and Gentile), Tintoretto, Georgione, and Veronese. Most are recognizable from art history bo ... read more

Europe » Italy » Veneto

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Italy became a nation-state in 1861 when the city-states of the peninsula, along with Sardinia and Sicily, were united under King Victor EMMANUEL II. An era of parliamentary government came to a close in the early 1920s when Benito MUSSOLINI establis... ... read more