Venice

One finds on one's travels that each city has its local and peculiar dish--Marseilles its "bouille à baisse"; Venice its "soupe au pidocchi"--mussels, gathered in the lagoons an...

May is the best month in which to see the streets. The intoxication of spring is in the air, and in the bright sunlight the colours burn and glow. Although you cannot see them,...

When one enters from the bright sun, St. Mark's appears dim and dark; but you must not judge by that. To appreciate its beauties, the student should visit the church day after d...

In the crooked and bewildering streets of Venice, which open out from the great piazza and lead all over the city, one sees the true life of the people. It is there that the poo...

For expeditions on the lagoons it is always well to choose a pearly, silvery-grey day, when everything is delicate in colour and mellowed by a semi-transparent haze. The lagoons...

Titian does not seem to have been very much appreciated by his patrons at the beginning of his career. He inspired no affection. He was acknowledged as the greatest of all the y...

Venice was looked upon by Italy very much as we look upon America. She had no long and glorious history--at least, no history of anything beyond handicraft--no literature, no an...

Venice in the Byzantine period must have been a city of great architectural wealth and splendour,--far in advance of other Italian towns, although, of course, destitute of the e...

With her pomp and pageantry, her wealth of art, her learned academies, her schools of painting, and her sumptuous style, Venice at the prime of her life was great, dazzling, spl...

There is no city more written about, more painted, and more misrepresented, than Venice. Students, poets, and painters have combined in reproducing her many charms. Usually, how...

The natural history of these objects and their gradual development through centuries would form a fascinating chapter. To gain some idea of what the gondola once was, it is as w...