Venice Case

Mariano Fortuny y su casa en Venecia. Biografía Mariano, segundo hijo del pintor catalán Mariano Fortuny y de Cecilia de Madrazo nació en Granada el 11 de mayo de 1871. En 1874, después de la muerte de su padre en Roma su familia se transladó a Paris en donde ya vivía su tio Raymundo de Madrazo. Mariano transcurrió su infancia en la casa de su madre en...

On December 16th the City Council Tourist Dept, released its yearly report. In 2007 the City of Venice had 8,842,874 visitors lodged in all kind of facilities (hotels, pensions, b&B, campings) with a 7.2% increase on 2006. 7,415,986 were foreigners and 1,426,888 were Italians. Reviewing the 2007 data, Venice historical centre reached the pick...

Andrea Palladio (1508-1580) was one of the greatest Italian architects of the Renaissance. “All over the western world hundreds of thousands of houses, churches and public buildings – writes James Ackerman – descend from the designs of Andrea Palladio. He is the most imitated architect in history”. This is particularly true in England (Inigo Jones...

Giovanni Bellini (1430-1516), the greatest painter of the early Renaissance in Venice, was born into a family of artists, both his father Jacopo, and his brother, Gentile, were well known artists and his sister married Andrea Mantegna, the important painter from Padua. Bellini was the first Italian artist to adopt the Flemish technique of oil...