sunday wheather report. 20210411. pictures from today… and from a gone world

questo sono immagini di venezia, la città vecchia, prese nei giorni immediatamente dopo la fine del lockdown rosso di pasqua 2021

venezia the old city, eight pictures i took after red tier lockdown first week of april 2021 … and the last is a picture of a gone world i took on june 2006

rialto bridge on morning april 6, 2021

saint mark square, june 30 2006

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all pictures taken first week of april 2021 and june 2006 by rinaldo rasa in venice

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sunday april 11,2021

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Christmas 2020 Wheather Report : Shirley Temple and Santa Claus

I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph.

Shirley Temple

saint mark square

near saint mark square

campo san polo

all pictures taken in venice on late december 2020 by rinaldo rasa

 

 

 

 

 

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friday december 25, 2020

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saturday wheather report : old words…

carved on the Stones of Venice.

Venezia come città romantica è stata inventata durante l’Ottocento da artisti anglosassoni come John Ruskin e John Singer Sargent . Però nella vecchia città è come stare perennemente sotto gli occhi severi di pietra delle statue, siano esse religiose o civili. Un osservatore silenzioso di chi la sta visitando. E questo da secoli.

During the nineteenth century anglosaxon artists like John Ruskin and John Singer Sargent invented Venice as romantic city. However within many centuries the city was never so romantic: this is not to say Venice was a version of Gotham City but from a young age when my parents driving me throught the venetian streets I was impressed by the stone statues.
These stone statues, civil or religious, had egle-eyed as a silent threatening look. For centuries this has been.

Saint Mark Square and its Christmas Tree 2020

On 1555 the philosopher Guillaume Postel was arrested in this house by the Holy Inquisition.

The words in ancient venetian language carved in stone say : here your complaint regarding medical malpractice in Dorsoduro neighborhood.

campo santa margherita

campo manin

rialto

street art

all pictures taken by rinaldo rasa in venice, italy – december 2020

 

 

 

 

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saturday december 12, 2020

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sunday wheather report : yellow lockdown november 2020 and other things

Venetian lands are in yellow lockdown,

the least worrying level of alarm but in any case the Covid pandemic is not over: the months to come will give some answers.People wear face masks and in most cases they have understood  the situation is serious and does not joke with the disease by underestimating the dangers as some politicians have done and still continue doing despite it is clear that they were wrong.

In the Venetian territory there was the first death of covid in the Western World and perhaps this led to the local authorities having decided to face the danger to public health in a decisive way.

and also a painting by John Sargent of the same subject.

https://www.wikiart.org/en/john-singer-sargent/rio-dei-mendicanti-venice

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… and some other snapshots of the Old City

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street art

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all pictures taken  in venice, italy half november 2020 days

sunday november 15, 2020

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WHEATHER REPORT: Halloweenesque Venice 2020

Waving October (…it is still 2020) Halloweenesque Venice 2020 Qualcosa su Halloween e Venezia… In this pandemic year it is a very difficult thinking about Halloween, however here is something you can still come up with. Taking a cue from the labyrinthine Venice and the name ancient Venetians gave to small streets inside the city. As a semi-professional wanderer in the city I found these locations interesting and their names matching a halloweenesque feeling, at least I believe few cities in the world have similar street names. Alley of Murders (Rio Tera’ dei Assassini) Bridge of Rippers (Ponte dei Squartai) Alley of Deads (Calle dei Morti) thanks everybody i love you all stay tuned! all photographs taken by rinaldo rasa, last week of october in venice, italy

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saturday october 31, 2020

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Sunday Wheather Report : two months of lockdown

something about troglodytes troglodytes.

In the 50s (when I was child) was given to me a book carefully kept for sixty years on my bookshelf.

At that time there was nothing if not the drawing to successfully represent things. Photography was expensive even black and white. My parents always told me I was talented in recopying birds illustrated in the book. What to say except that handmade drawings reveal information hard to find with photography? As time passes everything is idealized, maybe I wasn’t so good in drawing and my parents were just nice to me. Fact remains that for several reasons the book survived over the years until today.

Something fascinating is the latin names of birds that curator of ornithology drawings has put as caption.

During my childhood was not difficult in the garden among twigs and foliage to see a small bird as a wren. But what a surprise his Latin name is

Troglodytes troglodytes
not just one but twice named as
troglodyte

such a small and lovely animal. Troglodyte is associated with a rough caveman of prehistoric times! Perhaps Linnaeus in his taxonomy had a playful moment with the wren.

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Today is a strange time so I remember Piazza San Marco (Saint Mark Square) before the lockdown that I photographed on morning 7 March 2020.

digit scan images from book “Uccelli” (“Birds”) and venice photographed by rinaldo rasa

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sunday may 10, 2020

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” 4th week of april ” , collected photographs by rinaldo rasa .-

” … in Venice “

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Tourists at Saint Mark Square

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Riva degli Schiavoni

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Hats

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Campo San Polo

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Venice Biennale 2019 is coming...

 

photographs taken by rinaldo rasa, april 2019

 

 

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Sunday April 28, 2019

” glance to an old city “

Sant Tomà looks at Rialto

 

Saint Mark Square with bell tower (R) and two columns (C) and the Church (L)

 

 

Saint Mark Square in the background look from the Piazzetta dei Leoncini

 

 

Shop window at Campo Santa Maria Formosa

 

 

Small canal

 

 

 

Photographs by Rinaldo Rasa

 

 

 

These are photographs I took yesterday saturday 20 october 2018 and it shows a pictoresque Venice with a personal glance to the old City.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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i ask to you dear aficionado(s),
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sunday october 21 2018 

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sky over venice a glance of ten years ago

photographs completed with intelines

the blue sky canaletto style

piazza saint mark

punta alla dogana

the house of john ruskin

she the minstrels at san basilio (former pier to ellis island)

venice late winter 2007

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Friday February 17 2017

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