Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Venice Heritage Museum Creative Director and Board Member Michael Murphy stands inside the new museum that features vintage ...

In the 15th century painting “Miracle of the Relic of the Cross at the Rialto Bridge,” a Black gondolier calmly rows his client through the center of a frenetic scene. When you picture Venice’s famous ...

When you think of Venice, water and gondolas are probably the first things to come to mind. And yes, this is a city that was ...

“Venice: The Doge's Palace and the Riva degli Schiavoni,” a 1730s painting by Canaletto. (Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group/Getty Images) Review by John Jeffries Martin Visitors to ...

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Periodization, for all the fleeting satisfaction it provides, can cause severe headaches for a historian. “Among the many and various dangers that beset the would-be writer of history,” writes John ...

History is a complicated subject in a place that embraces reinvention as strongly as Venice Beach, and you can tell by the neighborhood’s murals. One mural even steps on this column’s theme: “Venice ...

History is a complicated subject in a place that embraces reinvention as strongly as Venice Beach, and you can tell by the neighborhood's murals. One mural even steps on this column’s theme: “Venice ...