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Venice and Istanbul: enlaced relationships unravelled by an exhibition
This is one of those stories where you can hardly tell the pupil and the teacher apart: the Venetian and Ottoman fabric manufacturies are as interwoven as the patterns of the fabrics they exported and imported, due to their age-old cultural and commercial comings and...
Venedig für Kenner, that is Venice as seen by Germany
"Venice for connoisseurs": that’s the headline of today’s Weltkunst, the art magazine of Die Zeit, which is dedicated to the lagoon city. Petra Schäfer describes first of all some of Venice’s swellest hotels, restaurants and attractions, some of which often stand in...
Silk Map: when art meets traditional crafts
From June 1 to November 24, on the occasion of the 55th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, the Venice Pavilion will host the project Silk Map, a tribute paid to the weaving tradition, the so-called ”soft art”, through the combination of art and...
The golden age of Venetian velvet
The ancient weaving mill Luigi Bevilacqua presents a new collection of velvets, inspired by the golden age of the Republic of Venice: the 16th century. The influence of oriental patterns on Venetian velvet in the 16th century The four patterns Sforza, Ca' d'Oro,...
