Paolo Veroncse Apotheosis
In February 1883 it was 100 years since Richard Wagner died in Venice. It was the Carnival Season, and the Venitians, poetically and inventive as ever, gave the Carnival the motto “Love and Death in Venice”. A motto, precise and poetical, certainly related to Wagner, because it contained both the Composers range from Love and Death.
The Republic of Venice had been for centuries the Empress of all cities. No one has portrayed it better than the famous Painter Paolo Veronese in his Painting The “Apotheosis of Venice”, which is fixed above the throne of the Doge in the Doge’s Palace.