Picture of the Week



We start this new section where every week a different picture will be showcased. Occasionally, there will be a second picture for you to identify.

The answer will be posted the following week, but if you do not want to wait, you can always e-mail me at:
                         sestiere@aloverofvenice.com
(your e-mail address will not be published or shared)


Home
 San Polo Picture of the Week 2011
Cannaregio
 Santa Croce Picture of the Week 2012
Castello San Marco Picture of the Week 2013
Madonna della Misericordia
 Christmas in Venice Picture of the Week 2014
Snow-Covered Venice
 Signs, Banners and Graffiti Picture of the Week 2015
Cast in Stone
 External Links Picture of the Week 2016
Summertime Venice and the Eastern Mediterranean Picture of the Week 2017
Most Serene Places My Favorites Picture of the Week 2018
Dorsoduro Picture of the Week 2010 Picture of the Week 2019

January 21, 2022

Three visions of the Grand Canal






Today's challenge. Consider this picture:


If you are a lover of Venice it's likely that you would have recognized this spot without much trouble.
The question is how long it took you: A second? Maybe two? Less than ten? More than thirty?
I'll let you know how long it took me when I post the answer next week.
January 14, 2022

Canal de San Piero, Castello.


Can you name this palazzo? Answer

January 7, 2022

From Campo San Vio, Accademia Bridge.


Where are we standing? Answer

December 31, 2021

Happy New Year!!!

Il Redentore, Giudecca.


Where are we? Answer

December 24, 2021

From the archive: Christmas 2011, Campo San Vio, Dorsoduro.


Where can we see these elegant chimneys? Answer

December 17, 2021
 
"On Earth peace, good will toward men..."

Merry Christmas, Joyeux Noël, Feliz Navidad, Buon Natale, Frohe Weihnachten, Feliz Natal, Mele Kalikimaka.

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"Joyous Nativity" by Cindy Burden, BurdenStudio, Cleburne, Texas.


Where are we? Answer



December 10, 2021

Madonna de l'Orto, Cannaregio.


Where are we? Answer

December 3, 2021

San Nicolò dei Mendicoli, Dorsoduro.
December 6 is the Saint Nicholas' Feast Day.


What's the name of this bridge, possibly the lowest and most forgotten bridge in Venice (so ignored that its name
does not appear in my guide "Calli, Campielli e Canali"? Where is it? Answer.
November 26, 2021

Grand Canal, Franceso Guardi (ca. 1760). Art Institute of Chicago.


Where are we? Answer
November 19, 2021

Ponte di Rialto, San Marco.


Where are we? Answer

November 5, 2021

Campiello del Piovan, Castello.


Where are we? Answer

October 29, 2021

Ponte del Savio, Rio de San Zan Degolà, Santa Croce.


Two pictures to guess where we are this week... Answer



October 22, 2021

Parco Savorgnan, Cannaregio.


Where are we? Answer

October 15, 2021

Rielo from Ponte Rielo, Castello.


Where are we? Answer

October 8, 2021

Molino Stucky, Giudecca.


Where are we? Answer

October 1st, 2021

From San Giorgio Maggiore


Where are we? Answer

September 24, 2021

Palazzo Ca' Sagredo, Cannaregio.


Where are we? Answer

September 17, 2021

Lido di San Nicolò


Where are we? Answer

September 10, 2021

Ponte San Lorenzo, Castello.


Where are we? Answer

September 3, 2021

San Nicolò del Lido



Where are we? Answer


August 27, 2021

Palazzo Barzizza on the Grand Canal (12-13th century). San Polo.


Where are we? Answer
August 20, 2021

May all your wishes come true...
(A whimsical window near Santa Maria del Giglio eight years ago)


Where are we? Answer

August 13, 2021

Church of Santi Maria e Donato, Murano.


Where are we? Answer

August 6, 2021

Campo San Giacomo de Rialto, San Polo.


Where are we? Answer

July 31, 2021

Grand Canal from Ponte dei Scalzi


Where are we? Answer

July 23, 2021

Palazzo Contarini-Fasan, Desdemona's House, San Marco.


Where are we? Answer

July 16, 2021


Burano


Where are we? Answer
July 9, 2021

Ponte di Ca' Venier and Ponte Pasqualigo on Rio del Mondo Novo, Castello.


Where are we? Answer
July 2, 2021

Procuratie Nuove, San Marco


Where are we? Answer

June 25, 2021

Piazza San Marco


Where are we? Answer
June 18, 2021

Winter morning light


Where are we? Answer

June 11, 2021

Palazzo Van Axel on Rio de la Panada, Cannaregio.


Where are we? Answer

June 4, 2021

Palazzo Mocenigo, itinerary dedicated to perfume.


A tough one. Where are we this week? Answer

May 28, 2021

Marinarezza on the Riva dei Sette Martiri, Castello.


Where are we? Can you identify the church in the background? Answer

May 21, 2021

Rio de Santa Marina, Cannaregio.


Where can we find this cubic vera da pozzo,
one of the few of its type in Venice? Answer

May 14, 2021

Dogana da Mar. Punta de la Salute or Punta de la Dogana, Dorsoduro. Fortune carries a rudder
– a gobernaculum – that propels her in all directions atop of a golden sphere supported by two Atlases.


Where are the two ladies talking? Answer.
May 7, 2021

Teatro La Fenice in 2018 seems like a different world.





Where can we find this capitelo seen here under a thin layer of snow?
Answer
April 30, 2021

Porta della Carta, Palazzo Ducale.


Where are we? Answer

April 23, 2021

Teatro Junghans, Giudecca, built in the 1990s on the site of the largest watch factory
in the world before WWII.





Where are we? Answer
April 16, 2021

Cloister of San Giorgio Maggiore


Where are we? Answer


April 9, 2021

Ponte del Paradiso on Rio del Mondo Novo,  Castello


Where are we? Answer

April 2, 2021

According to the Myth of Venice, Venice was founded on March 25, 421, at noon
where the church of San Giacomo di Rialto stands. Let's accept this as the truth and celebrate
La Seremissima's 1600th birthday. Happy Birthday Beautiful Lady.



Where are we standing today? Answer

March 26, 2021

Jorge Luis Borges Labyrinth, Island of San Giorgio Maggiore


Where are we? Answer
March 19, 2021

Church of Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari, San Polo.


Where are we? Answer

March 12, 2021

Chiesa di San Nicolò dei Mendicoli, Dorsoduro.


Where are we? Answer

March 5, 2021

March 8 is International Women's Day. Let's hope that we learn to celebrate half of humanity
not just on March 8 but every single day.
Remembering Elena Lucrezia Cornaro Piscopia, born in Venice and the first woman in the world to obtain
a doctorate degree –from the University of Padua– only 343 years ago. Men didn't make things easy for her.
She was not allowed to obtain a degree in theology because it was not considered an appropriate subject
for women, so she opted for one in philosophy. She was 32 when she graduated and died only six years later.


Plaque on Calle del Carbon, off Riva del Carbon, San Marco.


Where are we? Answer

February 26, 2021

San Simeone Piccolo, Santa Croce


Where are we? Answer

February 19, 2021

Campo San Polo


Where are we? Answer
February 12, 2021

The original statue of San Todaro (Saint Theodore), the first patron Saint of Venice,
protected from the elements under the loggia in the courtyard of the Palazzo Ducale, San Marco.
A copy of it sits on top of one of the columns in the Molo.



Where have the generous people of Venice installed this marble fountain just for dogs?
(Thanks to Sophie for making me aware of this beauty years ago).
Answer
February 5, 2021

San Marco


Where are we? Answer


January 29, 2021

Fondamenta del Remedio, Rio de San Zaninovo, Castello.


Where are we? Answer


January 22, 2021

Church and Campo Santi Giovanni e Paolo. Equestrian statue of Condottiere Bartolomeo Colleoni,
Castello.


Where are we? Answer

January 15, 2021

Grand Canal from Campo de la Salute, Dorsoduro.


Where are we? Answer

January 8, 2021

Palazzo Soranzo, Rio del Mondo Novo, Castello.


Where can we find this Madonna della Misericordia? Think Dorsoduro. Answer

January 1st, 2021

Happy New Year!!!


Where are we? Answer


December 25, 2020

Campo San Vio, Dorsoduro


Where can we find this ornate fountain? Answer

December 18, 2020

Merry Christmas
Joyeux Noël
Feliz Navidad
Buon Natale
Frohe Weihnachten
Feliz Natal


Where are we? Answer

December 11, 2020

Rio de l'Avogaria, Dorsoduro.


Where are we? Answer

December 4, 2020

Ponte de Corte Vechia, Rio de la Sensa, Cannaregio.


Where are we? Answer
November 27, 2020

Bucintoro, Museo Correr


Where are we? Answer

November 20, 2020

San Francesco de la Vigna, Castello


Where are we? Answer

November 13, 2020

Rio de le Do Torre from Ponte de l'Agnella, San Polo.


Where can we find this angel? Answer

November 6, 2020

Burano


Where are we? Under this sotoportego several scenes from "Summertime" take place.  Answer

October 30, 2020

Palazzo Franchetti-Cavalli-Gussoni and to its right Palazzo Barbaro, San Marco,
 from Campo de la Carità, Dorsoduro.


Where can we find this tiny elephant? Answer

October 23, 2020

Campo del Tiziano, Cannaregio.


Where can we find this handsome lion? Answer

October 16, 2020

Before the downpour


Where are we? Answer

October 9, 2020

Church of Sant' Elena, Castello.


Where are we? Answer

October 2, 2020

Fontego dei Turchi, Museum of Natural History, Santa Croce.


 Complete skeleton of Ouranosaurus nigeriensis at the Museum of Natural History.


Where are we? Answer

September 25, 2020

Teatro Malibran, location of Marco Polo's house which burned down in 1598. Its foundations
were found 400 years later during a renovation of the theater. Cannaregio.


Marco Polo's house in de' Barbari's woodcut. The church of Santa Maria dei Miracoli
can be observed a short distance away.


Where are we? Answer


September 18, 2020

Rio del Malcanton, Santa Croce-Dorsoduro


Where are we? Answer

September 11, 2020

San Polo: Palazzo Pisani Moretta (double water gates) where Josephine Bonaparte spent a few days
during her Italian sojourn in the Fall of 1797. Josephine was enchanted by the city
but Venice's fate was already sealed. It passed to Austria in exchange for Belgium and Lombardy.


Where are we? Answer

September 4, 2020

Basilica dei Santi Maria e Donato, Murano.


Where are we? Answer
Hint: last week's Picture of the Week.

August 28, 2020

Rio de San Girolamo, Cannaregio


Where are we? Answer

August 21, 2020

San Giorgio Maggiore from Riva degli Schiavoni


Where are we standing? Answer

August 14, 2020

Bacino di San Marco


View from Campo de la Salute


Where is this dragon fighter? (San Giorgio, San Teodoro?) Answer

August 7, 2020

Via Garibaldi and Riva dei Sette Martiri, Palazzo Caboto.


Where are we? Answer

July 31, 2020

Villa Hériot, Giudecca.


Where are we? Answer




July 24, 2020

Rigattieri, Calle dei Frati, between Campo Santo Stefano and Campo Sant' Angelo, San Marco.






Where are we? Answer
July 17, 2020

Campo San Zanipolo, Castello.


Where are we? Answer

July 10, 2020

Rio de Sant' Antonin, Castello.


Where are we? Answer

July 3, 2020

Ex-Convento dei Dominicani, Ospedale Civile, Castello.


Where are we? Answer

June 26, 2020

From my notebooks. Where are we?
Answer




June 19, 2020

Rio dei Mendicanti, Scuola di San Marco, Castello.


Where are we? Answer

June 12, 2020

Lido



Where are we? Answer

June 5, 2020

Vittore Carpaccio's Miracle of the Cross at the Rialto, detail, Gallerie dell' Accademia, Dorsoduro.


Where are we? Answer

May 29, 2020

Burano


Where are we? Answer

May 22, 2020

Canal de Cannaregio


Where are we? Answer

May 15, 2020

Sotoportego del Filatoio, Santa Croce


Where are we? Answer

May 8, 2020
Dreaming of Venice. Panificio Albonico, Santa Croce...alcuni anni fa.


Where are we? Answer

May 1st, 2020

Campo San Silvestro, San Polo


Where are we? Answer

April 24, 2020

Rio dei Mendicanti, Cannaregio


Where can we find this wisteria in bloom? Answer

April 17, 2020

Fondamenta del Remedio, Castello


Where are we? Answer

April 10, 2020
Campanile di San Marco, Loggetta


Where are we? Answer

April 3, 2020
Libreria Acqua Alta, Castello


Where are we? Answer

March 27, 2020
The Bellini clan
Details of two famous pictures from the Accademia Gallery.
The top one is believed to show from left to right: Gentile, Jacopo and Giovanni Bellini.
The bottom one is believed to show from left to right, kneeling: Jacopo Bellini, Leonardo Bellini (nephew of Jacopo), Andrea Mantegna
(son in law of Jacopo) and Gentile and Giovanni, sons of Jacopo. They are believed to be arranged by age.
Can you identify the pictures? Answer





In these trying times for the whole world, this link of a video about deserted Venice was sent to me
by another lover of Venice. Normally I would say enjoy it without reservations, but in this case I say, enjoy for what it is,
an extraordinary piece of historical documentary.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLC-8Fk2ZmY&feature=youtu.be
March 20, 2020
Chiesa Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari, San Polo
Giovanni Bellini's altarpiece


Here's a tough one. Where are we? Answer

March 13, 2020
San Nicolò del Lido


Where are we? Answer


March 6, 2020
Grand Canal


Where are we? Answer

February 28, 2020
Spring cleaning time.
The lavender glass of Venice. The color is due to the presence of manganese oxide. Another place where you
can admire purple glass is in the old brownstones of Boston (but it was a mistake; the glass was clear
in the beginning but turned lavender-purple upon exposure to the sunlight due to the high content of
manganese that oxidized and changed the color of the glass.)


Where are we? Answer

February 21, 2020
Salizada San Provolo leading to Campo San Zaccaria, Castello


Where can we find these two elegant portals, one in Castello the other in San Marco?
Answer



February 14, 2020
From a door in the Giudecca with love: Happy Valentine's Day!


This amazing floor is in one of the most important churches in Venice. Where?
I count at least seven different types of colored marbles. Answer

February 7, 2020
Ammonites





From top to bottom: church of Santa Maria dei Derelitti, Il Redentore, Piazza San Marco.

Where can we find this elegant vera da pozzo? Answer

January 27, 2020
Palazzo Sagredo, Cannaregio


Where are we? Answer

January 20, 2020
Teatro La Fenice, San Marco


Where can we find this relief of the Madonna? Answer

January 13, 2020
After sunset on the Grand Canal


Where are we after sunset? Answer

January 6, 2020

Happy Epiphany, Three Wise Men's Day or Three Kings' Day (it does not matter how you call it).


Homage to Giorgione's "L'Adorazione  dei Magi", handmade tableau by Alfonso Pozzobon, San Marco di Resana, Treviso,
Italy (exhibited at the church of La Madalena,  Cannaregio, Venezia, 2010).

Where are we? Answer

December 30, 2019

Happy New Year!


Where are we? Answer