- Duration
- 1 hour 15 minutes
- Product Type
- Audio Guide
- Venues
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- Rialto Market
- Rialto Bridge
- San Polo Neighborhood
- Rialto Neighborhood
- Grand Canal
- San Giovanni Evangelista
- Church of San Rocco
- Basilica dei Frari
- Stroll through the Rialto market
- Hear about the tiny Church of San Giovanni Elemosinario, destroyed in a fierce fire that threatened the city's economic center
- Admire the view across the Grand Canal to the Ca' d'Oro (House of Gold), once home to a grand merchant, and now a museum with a stellar collection of Italian art
- Discover why the first decade of the 1800s saw the closure of many of Venice's churches, governmental institutions, charities, and guilds, with buildings stripped of their furnishings and treasures
- Take in Cantina Do Mori, the favorite watering hole of Giacomo Casanova, Venice's most notorious man-about-town in the 1700s
- Find out why a 500-year-old sculpture of a hunched man called il Gobbo di Rialto is set at the center of Rialto
- Enjoy Campo San Polo, one of the largest open spaces in Venice, where bull runs took place before they were banned in the early 1800s
- Learn why the bubonic plague inspired the building of the impressive Scuola Grande di San Rocco
- See where Venice's ancient documents are stored in an archive that spans a thousand years of history
- Admire the great Basilica di Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari, an unofficial pantheon of Venice, filled with great monuments and Renaissance art
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Susan has over twenty years experience teaching the History of Art for universities in the UK and Italy. She is also the Venice lead for the Venice in Peril Fund, which supports at-risk art and monuments in the city. After graduating in the History of Art and Italian in 1998, she took an M.A. concentrating on art and architecture in Venice, and in 2004 she completed her specialization with a Ph.D. on Venetian Renaissance altarpieces. As a post-doctoral researcher with the University of Glasgow and London's National Gallery, she worked as a researcher and editor on the National Inventory of European Painting, the on-line catalog of European paintings in British museums. Susan has also contributed articles to the Burlington Magazine and Artibus et Historiae. Susan met her Venetian husband Paolo in 1997; they have a young son and divide their time between homes in Italy and the UK.
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