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Ludovico Cadorin
Ludovico or Lodovico Cadorin (1824 – 1892) was an Italian architect, active in Northern Italy, mainly around Venice and the Veneto. Biography He studied at the Accademia di Belle Arti of Venice and later became docent of the institution. Cadorin was best known for his 1858 restructuring and interior decorations of four rooms in the Caffe Florian in Piazza San Marco; he remade the Sala Oriental with chinoiserie paintings, but also designed the eclectic decorations the Sala delle Stagioni, la Sala degli Uomini Illustri, and the Sala del Senato. In the 1850s, in a bid to create a large hotel complex for bourgeois tourists, the Podesta of Venice Giovanni Correr commissioned a massive project for the Riva degli Schiavoni, along the Basin of San Marco, with an eclectic series of architectural quotations serving as a 600 meter facade for a grand hotel with bathing facilities, bazaars, a hippodrome, and drinking and eating establishments. The project was promoted in a series of con ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Veneto
Veneto (, ; vec, Vèneto ) or Venetia is one of the 20 regions of Italy. Its population is about five million, ranking fourth in Italy. The region's capital is Venice while the biggest city is Verona. Veneto was part of the Roman Empire until the 5th century AD. Later, after a Feudalism, feudal period, it was part of the Republic of Venice until 1797. Venice ruled for centuries over one of the largest and richest maritime republics and trade empires in the world. After the Napoleonic Wars and the Congress of Vienna, the Republic was combined with Lombardy and annexed to the Austrian Empire as the Kingdom of Lombardy–Venetia, until that was Italian unification, merged with the Kingdom of Italy in 1866, as a result of the Third Italian War of Independence. Besides Italian language, Italian, most inhabitants also speak Venetian language, Venetian. Since 1971, the Statute of Veneto has referred to the region's citizens as "the Venetian people". Article 1 defines Veneto as an " ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
