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The site contains illustrative and primary source material and is a compendium of the accounts of travels to Italy, as well as of Italian descriptions of foreign countries and cultures.
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...The Picture Needs Not Another Scar or Stain to Be the Saddest Work of Art in the World (Leonardo da Vinci, Last Supper, 1498)
... the prime treasure of Milan at the present hour is the beautiful, tragical Leonardo. The cathedral is good for another thousand years. but we ask whether our children will find in the most majestic and most luckless of frescoes......
...This Is Not the Fault of Venice...
The sentimental tourist's sole quarrel with his Venice is that he has too many competitors there. He likes to be alone; to be original; to have (to himself, at least) thr air of making discoveries. The Venice of to-day is......
The Happiest Picture in the World (Paolo Veronese, The Rape of Europe, 1580)
...The great Veronese... swims before you in a silver cloud; he thrones in an eternal morning. The deep blue sky burns behind him, streaked across with milky bars; the white colonnades sustain the richest canopies, under which the first gentlemen......
