{"id":29039,"date":"2024-01-28T08:35:58","date_gmt":"2024-01-28T13:35:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thriftingwonderland.com\/?p=29039"},"modified":"2024-01-28T08:35:59","modified_gmt":"2024-01-28T13:35:59","slug":"the-faces-of-venice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thriftingwonderland.com\/?p=29039","title":{"rendered":"The Faces of Venice"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Welcome to the Blog today, Friends. I’m so happy you’re here. Today I’m going to share some of the artwork that is available to anyone who visits Venice as a reward for just walking the streets on a beautiful day. Everywhere in the city are faces that are found on the walls of buildings, in piazzas and near the many bridges that connect the islands of Venice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The above picture shows one of the many depictions of “The Lion of Venice”, the symbol of St. Mark, the patron Saint of Venice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The “Lion of Venice” is depicted in many forms everywhere in the city. Every lion’s face is just a bit different but all are presented as noble beings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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You will find many figures of Venetians in prominent places. This one was over the entrance to one of the “Scuola” or trade fraternities of Venice. These were often commissioned by the members to adorn the buildings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This is one of the few remaining mailboxes that were scattered around Venice during the republic. If you had a complaint or suggestion, you would place your letter through the mouth and it would be collected and reviewed by the appropriate office in the Venetian government. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Grotesques are situated over doorways to discourage evil spirits from entering the home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Venetians were very concerned about making a good impression. You will often find doorknobs that are decorative faces adorning the entrance to a home. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The amount of detail in each doorknob is quite amazing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Here’s another beautiful metal doorknob.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The side view gives you even more detail. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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You will find art in some unlikely places in Venice. Look up, look down, look all around to gain a full appreciation of the beauty of the city.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Welcome to the Blog today, Friends. I’m so happy you’re here. Today I’m going to share some of the artwork that is available to anyone who visits Venice as a reward for just walking the streets on a beautiful day. Everywhere in the city are faces that are found on the walls of buildings, in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70469586,"featured_media":29052,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[419,731331108,200,1],"tags":[731331084,731331119,731331050],"class_list":["post-29039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-italy","category-photography","category-travel","category-uncategorized","tag-italy","tag-photohraphy","tag-travel"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thriftingwonderland.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/IMG_9276-rotated-e1705524198352.jpg?fit=3024%2C3218&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9ziaG-7yn","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thriftingwonderland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thriftingwonderland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thriftingwonderland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thriftingwonderland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/70469586"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thriftingwonderland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29039"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/thriftingwonderland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29196,"href":"https:\/\/thriftingwonderland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29039\/revisions\/29196"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thriftingwonderland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thriftingwonderland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thriftingwonderland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thriftingwonderland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}