#venice museum

[kultofathena]

Tod Cutler – Italian 14th to 15th Century War Hammer – Dragon Hammer

This Italian medieval war hammer is based on a piece from the Venice Museum dated 1380.  Housed at The Museo Civico Correr in Venice, Italy. Francesco II da Carrara.  The original was a staff weapon at 20cm wide and this has been scaled down to be a hammer. War hammers generally had a faceted hammer for powerful concussive blows and a sharper pointed side which could be used for piercing and puncturing. Based on a piece from Venice Museum and dated 1380 . The head is cast bronze and steel and matched with a bronze end cap and all the components are securely fitted to a stout and robust ash hardwood haft.

War hammers generally had a faceted hammer for blows and a sharper pointed side which could be used for piercing/ripping.

[conformi]

Carlo Scarpa, exhibition design of the Sicily's Regional Gallery, Palazzo Abatellis, Palermo, Italy, 1953-1954 ph. Jacopo Famularo VS Leonardo Da Vinci, The proportions of the human body according to Vitruvius, 1490

[lionofchaeronea]

Marine Scene (Boats near Venice), Henri-Edmond Cross, 1903

[digitalfashionmuseum]

Dark Green Pleated Silk Evening Dress, ca. 1910, Italian.

By Mario Fortuny.

National Museums Scotland.

[travelling-my-little-pony]

Masquerade is looking around Venice (and the surrounding islands).

In Italy.

Masquerade is on the island of Murano. Looking at a glass unicorn in the Glass Museum.

This is photo number 144 of 366.

[gingericywolf]

Venice natural history museum

Life on earth, the paleontology side

Pt 1

[classicalcanvas]

Title: View of Venice

Artist: Frits Thaulow

Date: 1895

Genre: Cityscape

[theinvisiblemuseum]

good afternoon. you can pretend this is reg if you want, but really i blacked out in a gender envious haze and this was the result.

[chaplinfortheages]

Charlie Chaplin at the Academia Museum Venice, Italy 1959.

[thevisualvamp]

Let’s go

[kultofathena]

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This Italian medieval war hammer is based on a piece from the Venice Museum dated 1380. Housed at The Museo Civico Correr in Venice, Italy. Francesco II da Carrara. The original was a staff weapon at 20cm wide and this has been scaled down to be a hammer. War hammers generally had a faceted hammer for powerful concussive blows and a sharper pointed side which could be used for piercing and puncturing. Based on a piece from Venice Museum and dated 1380 . The head is cast bronze and steel and matched with a bronze end cap and all the components are securely fitted to a stout and robust ash hardwood haft.

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[wandering-italy]

The Sala del Senato (Room of the Senate), one of the many meeting chambers in the Palazzo Ducale, on the famous Piazza San Marco, Venice.

Dec. 2019

[travelling-my-little-pony]

Masquerade is looking around Venice (and the surrounding islands).

In Italy.

Masquerade is on the island of Murano. Looking at glass clown fish by Muriel Balensi in the Glass Museum.

This is photo number 139 of 366.

[gingericywolf]

Venice natural history museum

Flying reptiles and more dinosaurs

Pt 5

[thepastisalreadywritten]

Sunglasses made of Murano glass, 18th-century AD, Venice, Italy.

Goldoni-type sunglasses with Mocenigo Coat of Arms.

Vascellari Collection (Italy) on display at The Murano Glass Museum.

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Long before the rest of the world would discover the danger of ultra-violet rays in 1870, Venetian opticians were 120 years ahead of the curve.

The green colour of the lenses, conjured by the island's glassmakers in the bright hues of grass green, sea green and emerald green, wasn't simply a fashion statement but had a key functional role.

It has been later discovered that this colour serves as a powerful filter for UV rays, which are damaging to eye and skin health.

Thanks to Murano Glass, it became a true innovative jewel.

These emerald-colored sunglasses protected the eyes of the nobility and Commanders da Mar (of the sea) from the harmful glare of reflected light as they navigated the waters that surrounded them.

These sunglasses soon became widespread among Venetian high society.

One was almost certainly owned and used by Doge Alvise IV Giovanni Mocenigo (19 May 1701 - 31 December 1778), who was the leader of Venice from 1763 AD until his death on New Year's Eve, 31 December 1778 AD.

No one knows for sure why they were called "Goldoni" glasses, but it is assumed this was due to Carlo Goldoni (25 February 1707 – 6 February 1793), the famous Venetian playwright and librettist from the Republic of Venice.