Tales from Italy, Alps, British Isles and FranceFri, 24 May 2024 09:33:53 +0000enhourly1http://wordpress.com//wp-content/uploads/2019/12/image-2.jpg?w=323232 /2024/05/05/lorenzo-quinn-is-back-in-venice//2024/05/05/lorenzo-quinn-is-back-in-venice/#respondSun, 05 May 2024 10:30:00 +0000/?p=32827/2024/05/05/lorenzo-quinn-is-back-in-venice/feed/0San Giorgio Maggiore from our private boatpalladio1234Lorenzo Quinn - Support - photo www.greyhoundtrainers.comLorenzo Quinn - Support 2017 - detailLorenzo Quinn, Support at Ca'Sagredo (a hotel and palace on the Grand Canal) is truly part of the 2017 Biennale.Lorenzo Quinn - Support - Ca'SagredoLorenzo Quinn - Building BridgesLorenzo Quinn - Building Bridges - 2022Lorenzo Quinn's - Building Bridges, Venice, 2019Lorenzo Quinn's - Building Bridges, Arsenale, Venice, Italy - 2019Lorenzo Quinn's 'Building Bridges' installed at one of the old dry docks east of Arsenale, VeneziaLorenzo Quinn's 'Stop Playing Sculpture'La Dolce Vita - Lorenzo Quinn, Halcyon Gallery (London)Lorenzo Quinn - Vroom Vroom (Halcyon Gallery), Park Lane, London/2017/11/23/history-of-the-grand-tour//2017/11/23/history-of-the-grand-tour/#commentsThu, 23 Nov 2017 17:05:42 +0000/?p=12672/2017/11/23/history-of-the-grand-tour/feed/30English Tourists in the 'Campagna' by Carl Spitzweg c.1840palladio1234Grand Tour - historic map showing a possible route from England through France across the Alps and down into Italy (marked in red).Typical young aristocrat Francis Basset painted by Pompeo Batoni, 1778 - whilst on the Grand TourGT - Sir William Watkins crosses the Alps in a sedan chairGT - Arrival of young traveller Piazza di Spagna (David Allen)GT - David Allen, Piazza di Spagna - 1775GT - Veduta, Piazza di Spagna - PiranesiLondon - canaletto - WC - Bacino San MarcoLondon - Canaletto - DoganaLondon - Canaletto - WC detailThis impossibly romantic image of Lord Byron (poet) arriving on the Venetian island of San Lazzaro to be welcomed by the Armenian community there (Painting 1890s)GT - Giovanni_Paolo_Panini_–_Ancient_RomeGT - Giovanni_Paolo_Panini_–_Modern_RomeJoseph_Wright_of_Derby_-_Vesuvius_from_Portici 1774-6George_Romney_-_Lady_Hamilton_(as_a_Bacchante)_3Vesuvius in Eruption, with a View over the Islands in the Bay of Naples c.1776-80 by Joseph Wright of Derby 1734-1797Naples - Hamilton-Campi_PhlegraeiThe Grand Tourists were fascinated by volcanoes - the science of vulcanology was in it's infancy in the 18th centuryA rather cruel cartoon of a young aristocrat, being accompanied on his Grand Tour by Dr James Hay - a respected antiquarian. Such learned gents were employed to escort unruly young men around Europe. They tried to teach them history, art and manners - with varying degrees of success.....Italy and the Grand Tour by Jeremy BlackEttore Maria Bergler painted romantic and atmospheric scenes of Sicily and Southern Italy 1850-1938Herculaneum, Roman seaside town, buried by the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD - superb archaeological site/2016/08/28/venice-to-padova-by-the-brenta-canal//2016/08/28/venice-to-padova-by-the-brenta-canal/#commentsSun, 28 Aug 2016 11:36:40 +0000/?p=5037/2016/08/28/venice-to-padova-by-the-brenta-canal/feed/18The Brenta waterway, our base for The Writer's Retreat in the glorious Veneto region, 18-24 September, 2022palladio1234Historic Map showing Naviglio di Brenta - from Padova to Venezia. The Burchiello was a historic boat that sailed the BrentaThe Venetian artist Tiepolo painted the 'Burchiello' in the 18th centuryThis painting by Canaletto, shows the Punta Dogana (Customs Point) & a Burchiello type craft being rowed by two menJanet Simmonds - The Educated Traveller at The Molino, Dolo - by the Brenta Canal. August 2018Villa Pisani, Stra and the Brenta waterway, our base for The Writer's Retreat in the glorious Veneto region, 08-15 September, 2019 - https://wp.me/p5eFNn-3DVThe magic of the Brenta, Venice - join our Writer's Retreat, September 2019Molino at Dolo, painted by Canaletto - 18th centuryMolino at Dolo,unchanged since Canaletto's time