Venice: How was it Chef?

[Gibbon]

Likes, Dislikes ??

Did you see the assumption ?

[chef]

Venice was excellent.

• Arrived early morning and caught a water taxi along the grand canal direct to the hotel steps.
• Hotel as perfectly located in the Castello quarter around 5 mins walk from the Rialto in a nice quiet area with canal view
• We went to see The Assumption, went as advised during a quiet period and although it's an impressive piece of artwork it's not really my thing, but good non the less.
• I much preferred the Peggy Guggenheim modern art gallery
• Avoided the main tourist areas during daytime and headed into the back streets
• Walked most of venice during the evening finding the best Chichetti (tapas) bars
• Ate at several excellent and highly recommended restaurants including:

-Trattoria Corte Sconta (Castello, Venice)

-Ristoteca Oniga (Dorsoduro, Venice)

-Antica Tarttoria La Furatola (Dorsoduro, Venice)

-Gatto Nero (Burano Island)

All in all, a very relaxing, romatic time and luckily the weather held out and so no rain..

thanks for asking

[Gibbon]

Glad you enjoyed it.

Titian also had an influence on modern art though, his Diana & Acteon bathing scene was an inspiration for the likes of Cezanne. Infact last year the national gallery in London displayed them side by side.

The thing I like about older art is not that it looks more more real, I don't hold with that ignorant and usual sneer at modern art; it's that the older stuff was meant to be displayed in a particular place and is in context with it's surroundings. It also had meaning to the common viewers in their everyday life.

Most art is designed to be displayed in a gallery and I would argue because of this has a sort of sterility. Also because a lot of it is for the 'educated elite' who can unravel this art the common man is excluded and hence the usual sneer.