Venice

Venetia

"A realist, in Venice would become a romantic, by mere faithfulness to what he saw before him."
-Arthur Symons

Venice

Campanile View - Blick vom Campanile - Vista dal Campanile

The Ducal Palace was the residence of the Doge up to the fall of the Venetian Republic in 1797, a public palace and seat of the administration of justice, the highest and richest symbol of Venetian civilisation of its cultural, military, political and economic history.

All historic periods are represented in an extraordinary stratification of structural and decorative elements: from the antique foundations of the original Gothic complex, to the great halls dedicated to political life and decorated by the canvases of Veronese. Tintoretto and the great masters of the Renaissance, to the precious rooms of the Doges apartment, from the dark prisons and places of torture to the luminous loggias on the Piazza and the Lagoon.