Art Of The Day Weekly
#436 - from 23 June 2016 to 29 June 2016
Jewish Venice
VENICE - For the 500th anniversary of the ghetto, a Venetian word which sadly spread (the getto, or « jet », as it was located near the foundries), the exhibition studies the long and complicated relationship between the city and the Jewish community from the XVIth century to our times, including the Shakespearian character Shylock, the emancipation in 1797 and the Lido cemetery.
• Venezia, gli Ebrei e l’Europa at the Palazzo Ducale, from 19 June to 13 November