Today was the fourth day of my trip to Venice. Only two more days before I have to say arrivederci and fly home. I spent most of the day in the Dorsoduro neighborhood with a short trip to the islands of Giudecca and San Giorgio Maggiore. This is a side canal in Dorsoduro, a residential section of the city that contains several art museums, a university, and many mask workshops.
I spent the bulk of the day browsing the museums of the Ca' Rezzonico (18th century Venetian and decorative arts), the Peggy Guggenheim Collection (20th century abstract expressionism, surrealism, and futurism), and the Accademia (16th to 18th century Italian painters). I learned that there were other painters who painted like Salvador Dali and that Giovanni Bellini was phenomenal and way ahead of his time in terms of his use of color and his sense of staging. If he'd been born 4 centuries later he'd definitely have been a surrealist.
Venice really is one big bag of eye candy. From the brightly colored jujube houses, to the canals and bridges, to the gilded palazzo and churches, and the priceless treasury of its museums the city is so sumptious to look at it's liable to give you cavities. By day it's amazing and by night it's nothing short of magical.
Tomorrow I'm off to explore the Castello neighborhood and take a guided tour of the lagoon islands of Burano, Murano, and Torcello!
(Taken with my Nikon D80)
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