Carla Szathvary writes on Italian Liberty and Art Nouveau, and manages partnerships and media relations for Cultural Heritage Online.
Contributions: 13 articles · 146 heritage places · 2,570 events · 256 photographs
Published on beniculturalionline.it, the Italian archive of this publication, online since 1998. They are being brought into Cultural Heritage Online.
At Campo Santo Stefano, artisanal textile vitrines showcase fine silk cushions featuring Art Nouveau and Stile Liberty motifs inspired by Alphonse Mucha and Gustav Klimt.
Behind Campo Manin, a disused metal storefront in Calle de la Cortesia features a bold winged heart mural reading “You End Me”, exemplifying contemporary Venetian street art.
Twenty-nine men of one Venetian parish, each with his rank, under two bronze figures lettered Faith and Charity, on a house wall in Campo San Provolo since 1922.
A sixteenth-century palace on the Canal dei Tolentini, given to the city and turned in 1921 into an open-air girls school because of the park around it.
A Franciscan monastery founded in 1236, suppressed in 1806 and cut away by Piazzale Roma and the Rio Novo: a brick wall with a blocked Gothic arch is what is left.
Built by Scamozzi in 1591-1602 for the Theatines and left unfaced, the Tolentini church got its six-column Corinthian portico from Andrea Tirali a century later.
A 1922 parish roll of honour in San Polo, carved by Marcello Bonivento, reopened in 1964 to take in the dead of a second war.
Along Rio di Santa Sofia in Cannaregio, a rare covered water colonnade allows boats to berth directly beneath vaulted palaces while pedestrians walk sheltered along the canal.
Berthed at Fondamenta Salute against the San Marco panorama, Il Nuovo Trionfo (1926) is the last authentic two-masted wooden trabaccolo preserving Adriatic maritime navigation heritage.
Along Rio Terà San Leonardo, the Cannaregio atelier of Ca’ Macana showcases masterly handmade Venetian papier-mâché masks, famous for supplying Stanley Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut.
