Saturday, June 21, 2014

THE LAST VENETIAN FRESCO: the fatal year of 1797 -- the end of the Serenissima Republic

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While we can place GIORGIONE as the first fresco artist whose work has survived it is pretty easy to locate the last:

That was the fresco made in 1797, the fatal year when the Serenissima Republic came to an end, after more than a millennium.

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