Daily life, religion, nature and protection of the Lagoon. Lido and Pellestrina are two islands forming a barrier between the southern Venetian Lagoon and the Adriatic Sea. In those islands, road traffic is allowed. There are bus services on islands and waterbus services linking islands with other islands (Venice, Murano,…

Italian Navy Museum of Naval History (Museo storico navale è un museo della città), A precious place with a collection from centuries of Naval History, with boats and artefacts that retrace history and traditions. The Naval History Museum is a museum of the city of Venice, owned by the Italian…

The Arab-Norman architecture of Palermo style are magnificently enriched with carving and colored inlay, a curious combination of three styles — Norman-French, Byzantine and Arab.. They incorporated the best practices of Arab and Byzantine architecture into their own art. Under the Normans, Sicily experienced a period of great artistic and…

The Central Collecting Point and the founding of the Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte In June 1945 the American Office of Military Government installed the Central Art Collecting Point in the former National Socialist Party buildings on Königsplatz in Munich. This art collection facility was to restitute cultural property looted by the…

An art-historical photo campaign, during WWII, showcases Michelangelo’s sculptures in the Medici Chapel as they have never been seen before In the middle of the Second World War – and precisely because of this war – Friedrich Kriegbaum who was the director of the German Institute of Art History in…