San Marco (sestiere)
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Nobili al Cafè — Noblemen at the Café — Grevembroch 1-096
“Nobili al Cafè” (Nobles at the Cafè) from the Gli abiti de veneziani (1754) by Giovanni Grevembroch, translated by René Seindal.
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Habiti d’huomeni et donne venetiane — 11 — Loggietta
“Loggietta” from the “Habiti d’huomeni et donne venetiane”, published by Giacomo Franco, c. 1610.
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Il Gran Teatro di Venezia — plate 1 — La Piazza di S. Marco
“La Piazza di S. Marco” from the “Gran Teatro di Venezia”, published by Domenico Lovisa, c. 1717.
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Habiti d’huomeni et donne venetiane — 12 — Gran Consiglio
“Gran Consiglio” from the “Habiti d’huomeni et donne venetiane”, published by Giacomo Franco, c. 1610.
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Habiti d’huomeni et donne venetiane — Giacomo Franco
About forty engravings from the early 1600s, with dresses, attires, ceremonies, feasts, regattas and much more.
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Bianca Cappello — daughter of the Republic
In 1563, a young Venetian noblewoman eloped with her lover, never to come back to Venice again. She went on to have an eventful, and highly unusual life, in Florence.
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Brick pavements at St Mark
Current digs in the Piazza San Marco reveal the ancient brick pavings of the square, as we know them from paintings.
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Il mermeo in giro — Quacking Around — Grevembroch 4–77
“Il mermeo in giro” (Quacking Around) from the Gli abiti de veneziani (1754) by Giovanni Grevembroch, translated by René Seindal.
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Tombs of the doges
Where were the doges of Venice buried? A little bit all over, in churches and monasteries in Venice and beyond.
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Prigioni — Lessico Veneto
“Prigioni” from the Lessico Veneto (1851) by Fabio Mutinelli, translated by René Seindal.