Few, if any, early modern European cities boasted a population as racially, ethnically, and religiously diverse as Renaissance Venice, from German merchants ... differ from those in countless other ...

Elegant Renaissance ... lagoon. Venice is everyone's dream city. —Gillian Price What to see at the Venice Biennale this year What to see at the Venice Biennale this year Ultimate Italy: 14 ...

Renaissance thinkers saw their own era as a reenactment of the great dramas of Greek history. What drove this comparison?

Filmmaker Fred Kudjo Kuwornu brings his documentary We Were Here: The Untold History of Black Africans in Renaissance Europe ...

Venice, Italy gets a lot of hate ... These masks originated from the medieval and Renaissance periods but are still used ...

Venice's world-famous carnival celebrations draw tens of thousands of visitors to the lagoon every year. But what events can ...

VENICE (JTA) — Through a narrow ... s population probably peaked around 1630 with about 5,000 Jews of German, Italian, French, and Sephardic descent. Before the Shoah, between 1500 and 1800 ...

Today, the area is filled with Renaissance-era synagogues and the Museo Ebraico, which chronicles and displays Jewish Italian life beginning in the 16th century. Northeast of Venice’s Cannaregio ...