Surprised by Time

Giovanni Dario between his friends, the Bellini brothers. Gentile Bellini, Procession at San Marco , 1496. Every week the New Y...

Doge Leonardo Loredan, Giovanni Bellini, 1501. National Gallery, London. When I was a child in West Africa, my parents had a b...

  Aerial view of the (modern) Venetian Argolid. Once the peace settlement for the Venetian-Ottoman war had been put in writin...

Carpaccio, Unknown Woman Marieta was the only child of one of the most interesting men ever known in Venice. At the age of 26, on ...

Nauplion Houses. Detail from Camoccio map , 1571. Towards the end of the fifteenth century, Canon Casola and Felix Fabri described Modon...

  Sketch of a Turk, Gentile Bellini, 1480. A couple of years after Minio arranged for pardons for the stratioti who participated in the ...

I wrote earlier about the inscription on the facade of Ca' Dario.  This entry is about the interlaced circles on the facade, three of ...