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...Roman rites lingered for centuries in Europe. Every Easter in medieval Venice - the seat of what was then a powerful Mediterranean empire - regiments of soldiers, dignitaries and the clergy would file past the city's famous Basilica de San Marco toward the docks to watch Venice's ruler, the Doge, board a vessel, sail into the harbor and drop a gold ring into the waters. This very public act symbolized Venice's divine marriage to the Adriatic Sea, the key to its Doge's wealth and power...
...been inextricably tied to water: the city famous for its canals is even shaped like a fish, with an imposing tail bifurcating at the Isola di San Pietro. Over the centuries, the Venetians' empire-building navies gave them grandiose reason to stage an annual Marriage with the Sea--the doge on board a gilded galley flinging a ring into the lagoon in mythic matrimony. Last week, however, the sea wanted more than a ring: the Adriatic appeared to be reeling in all of Venice itself, grabbing at it with the worst floods La Serenissima has seen in more than...
...Some of the bounty of this intercontinental enterprise is on display at Venice and Islam: 828-1797 - an impressive exhibition being held at the onetime seat of Venetian political power, the Doge's Palace, until Nov. 25. Chronicling nearly a thousand years of exchanges with Egypt, the Levant (roughly present-day Lebanon, Israel, Palestine, Jordan and Western Syria), the Ottoman and Persian empires and beyond, the collection is as eclectic as the history it charts: ceramics colored with Armenian dyes, embroidered silks and enameled glass, carpets and flowing tapestries, maps and ancient texts, elegant portraits of aristocrats and ambassadors...
...Lord Foster--the peerage came in 1999--for years the man Asian banking executives and Arab sheiks have pursued for the luster of Big Architecture. When you visit his firm's vast London offices you understand what it must have been like to await an audience with the doge in 16th century Venice. Clients and would-be clients from around the world crisscross the reception area clutching their portfolios and chattering in Italian and Russian. The British press says his profits have been in decline. He even lost a commission last year to a firm established by a onetime Foster...
...ITALY As early as 1822, Italian entrepreneur Giuseppe Dal Niel rented the central apartments of the crumbling Venetian Palazzo Dandolo, the 14th century Doge's palace just off the Piazza San Marco. He restored and opened them to the public as the Hotel Royal, eventually acquiring the entire palace, which still welcomes guests today as the glittering Hotel Danieli. Many suites feature 18th century furniture and ceiling paintings; period artworks, some from the Caravaggio school, adorn the walls, and the d?cor?pink marble floors, gold-leaf columns and Murano glass chandeliers?are enough to make an old archduke weep. Rates...