palazzos

Late August, American and English films dominated the Venice waterfront where Shame heated up amid more fancy parties in grand palazzos.

Peggy Siegal: To Venice With Love

The diseased palazzos, with their flaking waterfront facades, leonine doorknockers and rusting, shackled iron pylons, are from a bygone era at odds with modernity.

Kisa Lala: Venice Biennale: A Temple of Transience By Mike And Doug Starn

Instead, the Chamber rents office space for lawmakers in other palazzos that are owned by private real-estate developers.

A Symbol of Lawmaker Privilege

Instead, the Chamber spent an additional €46.5 million in 2010 to rent office space for lawmakers inside other palazzos that are owned by private real-estate developers.

Italy Budget Scrutiny Hits Close to Rome

They decorated churches with beautiful paintings and sculptures, and when they had filled the churches, they decorated their own homes; when these were filled, they built magnificent palazzos that covered whole city blocks, and filled them with art.

David Galenson: Art and Money in Renaissance Florence

The film, which tells the story of a wealthy Milanese textile family trying to cope with finding a successor in a time of rapid globalization, is a ravishing and authentic glimpse into Milan's private inner world of old entrepreneurial wealth, sumptuous palazzos and refined understated luxury.

Touching the Fabric of Italian Life

On June 4, the contemporary art world will descend on Italy for the public opening of the Venice Biennale, in which countries send their most-promising artists to exhibit in pavilions and palazzos across the city.

Venice Biennial

The Venice Biennial, which opens June 4, is the Olympics of the contemporary art world, a century-old event in which countries send their most promising artists to exhibit in pavilions and palazzos across the watery city.

The Art World's Olympics

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Urban Scrawl: Rome's Graffiti Pits Artists Against Clean-Up Crews

Most of Rome's Baroque and Renaissance palazzos don't fall under the Urban D cor Squad's jurisdiction, leaving their owners to handle the cleanup.

Urban Scrawl: Rome's Graffiti Pits Artists Against Clean-Up Crews