Resources

GENERAL:

Translation Dictionary
Eurail (train)
Trenitalia (train)

ART:

Everything About Watercolor and More
The Grand Tour, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Venetian Works, The Getty
Venetian Works, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
The Venetian School of Art

ABOUT VENICE:

Save Venice
Venice in Peril
The Venice Project (Yale)
Fictional Cities: Venice
Churches of Venice
Commedia dell’arte
Institution for the Conservation of the Gondola & Training of Gondoliers
NOVA: The Sinking City of Venice
SALVE: Activities for the Safeguarding of Venice and Its Lagoon
The Mose Project: UNESCO: Is the MOSE Project Already Obsolete?

Venice Now

The City of Venice (official: in English)
The City of Venice (official: in Italian)
The Venetian Biennale
ACTV (public transportation)
Il Gazzetino (the Veneto-area newspaper: in Italian)

The Other Venices

Fake Venices Around the World
Venice Beach, California
The Venetian, Las Vegas
Venice, New York
Venice, Florida
Venice, Illinois
Venice, Louisiana
Maida Vale, London (“Little Venice”)
Bamberg, Germany (“Little Venice”)
Venezuela (“Little Venice”)

ART/ISSUES

Walter Benjamin, “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction“: An important essay to which we may refer often, although we probably won’t require students to read it.