On the occasion of the splendid immersive Grand Palais exhibition,
Le Figaro Hors-Série "Eternal Venice" takes
you along the Grand Canal to discover its history, its palaces, its artists and craftsmen, yesterday and today. today.
Venice.
Le Figaro Special Edition.
An azure sky studded with domes, the black ink of the canals where the pink brick of the facades and the white marble laces of the palaces blur, the lagoon waiting for the sun at its zenith to drape itself in jade, and a softness of the he air that the summer scents have not yet vitiated: such appears Venice on this morning of May 31, 1564, when "
the most Venetian of the great Venetian painters
", master Jacopo Robusti known as Tintoretto, a small bearded man with feverish gaze, enters the Scuola Grande di San Rocco.
Designed by the architect of Saint Mark's Square, Pietro Bon, completed by his colleague the prototype Scarpagnino, this admirable architectural setting was then devoid of any interior decoration.
In 1553, Titian set out to create a…
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