Saturday, April 7, 2018

The Beautiful Floor Mosaics of Venice

Sightseeing merely about Venice to a greater extent than oftentimes than non involves sticking your olfactory organ upward inwards the air marveling at historic buildings in addition to sprawling vistas , but that’s exclusively one-half the show. The other one-half lies underneath your feet. Few tourists in addition to fifty-fifty Venetians convey paid whatsoever attending to the city’s amazing mosaic floors despite walking over them every day. So when High German lensman Sebastian Erras was inwards Venice , he turned his photographic television camera downwardly in addition to captured these beautiful all the same unappreciated function of art.

Sebastian discovered that floors tin live on beautiful besides when he was visiting Marrakech , inwards Kingdom of Morocco , a few months ago. When he went dorsum to Paris , where he lives , he started seeking out floors. “I had no watch in that place was such a multifariousness of floors inwards Paris. It’s similar a treasure hunt.” He in addition to then went to Venice in addition to did the same in that place for an interactive article on website Pixartprinting.

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“In a urban marrow built on water” – the locomote author John Julius Norwich pointed out – “the endlessly shimmering reflections of churches in addition to palaces constantly attracted the gaze [of Venetians] downward”. So they made that vision fifty-fifty to a greater extent than joyful through luxurious floors. Paving is a serious upshot inwards Venice: rock keeps out damp from the lagoon in addition to drives the summer’s oestrus away.

“I was curious to notice a novel side of Venice that is belike non therefore good known , equally people commonly don’t pay attending to floors” , Sebastian Erras said. “A lot of these are hidden inwards churches in addition to monuments. People who alive in that place convey told me , ‘I walk hither every twenty-four hr menstruum in addition to I never noticed the floors’. It’s a unlike means of discovering a city.”

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Palazzo Pisani Moretta

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Ca’ Sagredo Hotel

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Palazzo Pisani Moretta

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Galleria Giorgio Franchetti alla Ca’ d’Oro

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Scuola Grande San Giovanni Evangelista

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Scuola Grande San Giovanni Evangelista

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Scuola Grande di San Rocco

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Sestiere di San Marco

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Laboratorio Orsoni

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Negozio Olivetti - Piazza San Marco ,

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Teatro La Fenice

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Sale Apollinee , Teatro La Fenice

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Caffè Florian

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Sestiere San Marco

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Sestiere Santa Croce

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Foundation Querini Stampalia Onlus

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Alliance Française di Venezia

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Alliance Française di Venezia

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Alliance Française di Venezia

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