Stories of St. Mark Square. Symbol, pride and mirror of the Republic
You may recall that in a previous post, we dealt with the routes through which many ancient marbles reached Venice. In reality, coloured marble has travelled extensively from the classical period untill today, greatly appreciated for its beauty, symbolic meaning,
Each object is a journey. Revived marbles
The walls of Venetian palaces and the museum halls preserve many recognizable traces of the reuse of archaeological materials from the Hellenic Levant. It is the case of two Cretan interstate stelae, now in the National Archaeological Museum of Venice. The
