venice

"I began to feel that this city somehow was barging into focus, tottering on the verge of the three-dimensional. it was black-and-white, as befits something emerging from literature, or winter; aristocratic, darkish, cold, dimly lit, with twangs of Vivaldi and Cherubini in the background, with Bellini/Tiepolo/Titian-draped female bodies for clouds." Watermark, I. A. Brodskij