Today is Monday and the Biennale venues are closed. Since we had a full day of contemporary art yesterday we decided to head for more classical destinations today. Everyone keeps telling us how small Venice and the easiest way to get from point a to point b is to walk. So we got directions to walk to the Dorsoduro (a part of town) rather than take the boat to reach the Academia Museum and Peggy Guggenheim Foundation. We laughed because the front desk told us to keep straight in a certain direction and we'd reach the bridge but by now we've learned there's no such thing as "
straight" in Venice. Ferris says the Venetian street plan or lack thereof reminds her of the streets in Fez. This is very apt.
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| View from the Academia Bridge. |
Beautiful day again particularly for walking and picture taking. Loved the Academia. Had a major Tintoretto-fest. And by the way Tintoretto is especially important to see on this trip because his work is the inspiration for the theme of this year's Biennale - Illuminations. Giorgione's The Tempest magnificent. The Peggy Guggenheim Foundation was quite a treat. I'd never been to either museum before. PG had a room of amazing Pollocks as well as every major artist of the early 20th c. What we enjoyed most was the fact that we hadn't seen many of the works before, not even in reproduction. What a treat.
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| The Academia. |
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| The Dorsoduro. |
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| View from the front of the Peggy Guggenheim Foundation. |
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| A vaporetto. |
Of course we were unable to make it through the day without a little shopping. Of particular note were a glass shop were we both bought necklaces and a Venetian family run leather shop where again we both made purchases. Ferris bought a clever green leather bag that has a detachable iPad carrier. I bought a darling orange document bag. Ended the day on a happy note with our now daily ritual of pistachio gelato. We are making a science of determining who has the best pistachio gelato in venice. Cannot leave until this study is complete.
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