The Planet Earth: Venice

Exhibition «The Planet Earth: Venice»

Art exhibition «Venice» was opened under the project called «The Planet Earth» on February 9th 2016 and was placed in the CEC «Raduga», Samara. Modern photographs and works by well-known masters of painting, Venetian masks, and dolls, objects made of Murano glass were presented there.
Venice is not only famous for the great number of islands and canals but for its fascinating views, the brightness of surrounding places and people.
Venice as the city in Italy, the administrative center of the region of Venice and the province of Venice forms a commune divided into six self-governing districts. It’s located on the mainland and the islands of the Venetian Lagoon of the Adriatic Sea, exposed to autumn floods from the surge of the sea.
Back to the antiquity times, the area of Venice was inhabited by Venetians, and that’s where the city’s name comes from. The architectural image of the city was formed during the heyday of the Venetian Republic in the 14th-16th centuries. The historic center is located on 118 islands separated by 150 canals which are crossed by about 400 bridges.
Venice is a seaside resort, a center of international tourism, the area where international movie festivals along with art and architectural exhibitions take place in. There’re intra-urban transportations on motor ships, gondolas, barges. It has been a settlement since the 5th century AD, a city from the early 9th century. It was a major intermediary trade center between Western Europe and the East in the 9th-16th centuries. In the Middle Ages and up to 1797 the republic was led by a doge (from the end of the 13th century – oligarchic) and had a significant territory under control. Venice also was in possession of Australia in 1797-1805 and 1815-1866. You can see richly decorated churches and palaces along the canals and narrow curved streets there. St. Mark’s Cathedral (9th-15th centuries) and Doge Palace (14th-16th centuries), Old Library of San-Marco (16th century), buildings of religious fraternities (skuol), and monasteries are all in the central square. From the Middle Ages to the New Age, Venice was known as one of the biggest cities in Europe. Thus, in the 15th century with a population of 180 thousand inhabitants, it was second only to Paris. The population consists of 264 579 inhabitants in December 2014.
The city of Venice is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site along with the Venetian Lagoon.

The exhibition took place in Nizhny Novgorod Kstovo, Arzamas, Pervouralsk, Togliatti, Cheboksary, Novomoskovsk, Protvino, Smolensk, Sarapul, Elabuga, Bugulma, Almetievsk, Nizhnekamsk, Менделеевск, Naberezhnye Chelny, Kolomna, Vladimir, Khanty-Mansiysk, Ulyanovsk, Saratov, Torzhok, Samara