In 1962, Giacometti was awarded the grand prize for sculpture at the Venice Biennale, and the award brought with it worldwide fame.

On September 6, 2009, Lucas was in Venice to present to the Pixar team the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement during the 2009 Biennale Venice Film Festival.

In subsequent years he was given many prestigious commissions, including the Dutch pavilion for the Venice Biennale ( 1953 ), the art academies in Amsterdam and Arnhem, and the press room for the UNESCO building in Paris.

In 1964 Noland occupied half the American pavilion at the Venice Biennale.

Das Blaue Licht won the Silver Medal at the Venice Biennale and played to full audiences all over Europe.

He was awarded the Grand Prize for Sculpture at the Venice Biennale in 1952 and the Feltrinelli Prize at the Accademia dei Lincei in Rome in 1954.

An early work which would mark their difference from the then dominant postmodern classicism of the late 1970s, was their contribution to the Venice Biennale of 1980, curated by Italian architect Paolo Portoghesi, titled " Presence of the Past ".

* Golden Lion of the Venice Biennale of Architecture for lifetime achievement ( 2010 )

It is one of the world's most prestigious film festivals and is part of the Venice Biennale, for over a century one of the most prestigious cultural institutions in the world ( founded in 1895 ).

* Venice Biennale

* Venice International Film Festival history at La Biennale di Venezia website

In the 1980s, the Carnival of Venice was revived and the city has become a major centre of international conferences and festivals, such as the prestigious Venice Biennale and the Venice Film Festival, which attract visitors from all over the world for their theatrical, cultural, cinematic, artistic, and musical productions

Temple, Kyoto ( 1992 ); Musée de L ' Elysée, Lausanne ( 1992 ); Amerika Haus, Berlin ( 1992 ); Venice Biennale ( 1993 ); Louisiana Museum of

She also received a Golden Lion Award for lifetime achievement from the Venice Biennale in 2009.

In 1995, Viola represented the United States at the 46th Venice Biennale, for which he produced a series of works called Buried Secrets, including one of his best known works The Greeting, a contemporary interpretation of Pontormo's The Visitation.

In 2007, Viola was invited back to the 52nd Venice Biennale to present an installation called " Ocean without a Shore ," which was seen by over 60, 000 viewers throughout its duration.

It is the seat of exhibition of the Venice Biennale in southern Italy.

For the Venice Biennale in 1979 he designed a floating Teatro del Mondo that seated 250 people.

For the Venice Biennale in 1984, he designed a triumphal arch at the entrance to the exhibition site.

* 2000-Leone d ' oro at the Mostra di Architettura di Venezia ( Venice Architecture Biennale ) for his lifelong achievement

His works were shown at Chicago in 1933, the Venice Biennale in 1934 and the World's Fair, New York, in 1939.

In 1954 he was given the Venice Biennale print making prize, in 1958 the Guggenheim International Award, and in 1980 he received the Gold Medal of Fine Arts from King Juan Carlos of Spain.

* MILVa – Interactive Map of Venice Lagoon

* SIEPM Virtual Library, including scanned copies ( PDF ) of the Editio Juntina of Averroes ' works in Latin ( Venice 1550-1562 )

* Averroes ( Latin translation, Venice, 1562, beginning on p. 455 of the PDF file )

Antonio Canova (; 1 November 1757 – 13 October 1822 ) was an Italian sculptor from the Republic of Venice who became famous for his marble sculptures that delicately rendered nude flesh.

They were also featured in the documentary Chihuly in the Hotshop, syndicated to public television stations by American Public Television starting on November 1, 2008. Chihuly Over Venice from Chihuly's Portland Press website

Even thirty years after his death " Sultan Solyman " was quoted by the English playwright William Shakespeare as a military prodigy in The Merchant of Venice ( Act 2, Scene 1 ).

In its alliance with Florence in 1426, Venice agreed to supply 8, 000 cavalry and 3, 000 infantry in time of war, and 3, 000 and 1, 000 in peacetime.

* 1797: Napoleon's invasion and partition of the Republic of Venice ended over 1, 000 years of independence for the Serene Republic.

* May 12 – First Coalition: Napoleon I of France conquers Venice, ending the city's 1, 100 years of independence.

* April 1 – King Alboin leads the Lombards into Italy ; refugees fleeing from them go on to found Venice.

* R 1. 04 L ' amore in ballo ( carnival 1765, Venice S Moisè )

* R 1. 06 Le nozze disturbate ( carnival 1776, Venice S Moisè )

* R 1. 35 L ' innocente fortunata ( carnival 1773 Venice S Moisè )

* R 1. 43 La frascatana ( autumn 1774 Venice, S Samuele ) de Zamora

* R 1. 45 Demofoonte ( carnival 1775 Venice, S Benedetto )

* R 1. 46 La discordia fortunata ( carnival 1775 Venice, S Samuele ) deluso

* R 1. 84 I giuochi d ' Agrigento ( 16. 5. 1792 Venice, Fenice )

* January 1 – Enrico Dandolo becomes Doge of Venice.

The city is sometimes included, with Venice ( Italian Venezia ) and Treviso, in the Padua-Treviso-Venice Metropolitan Area, having a population of c. 1, 600, 000.

Francesco Foscari ( 1373 – 1 November 1457 ) was doge of Venice from 1423 to 1457, at the inception of the Italian Renaissance.

After the film won a prize at the Venice Film Festival for " Best Artistic Ensemble " in 1937, the Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels declared La Grande Illusion " Cinematic Public Enemy No. 1 "

File: Palazzo Ducale in Venice 1. jpg | Carved marble façade inside courtyard

File: Venedig BW 1. JPG | A " Lion's Mouth " postbox for anonymous denunciations at the Doge's Palace in Venice, Italy.

It was laid out by Dr. Benjamin Franklin Clark on February 1, 1817, as Venus, which became corrupted as " Venice ", a name found on some maps.

On 1 January 1193, Dandolo became the thirty-ninth Doge of Venice.

* Il primo libro de madrigali ( first book of madrigals ) ( opus 1, Venice, 1611 )

* Symphoniae sacrae ( Book 1 ) ( opus 6, Venice, 1629 )

The Venice Library was lost in 1485 during the collapse of the abbey's bell tower, but following the invention of movable type printing by Johannes Gutenberg in 1439, the rotting books had been saved in their entirety by making their first typeset copy " of about 1, 000 volumes ", with each typeset book containing 10 manuscripts.