Cathy's Art Diary

Charming exhibition at the Muso Correr in Venice looking at the life and work of Ippolito Caffi. Caffi was a Canaletto style artist who was exiled from Italy and travelled round the Middle East and Europe and then lived in Venice on his return. His early work was in Rome and having been there recently it was great to see pictures of the city again. And of course it’s always great to look at pictures of Venice in Venice and wonder at how little it’s really changed! Caffi was brilliant at handling different light effects including night scenes and also seemed to enjoy an scene with action in it such as the night bombing of Marghera at which he acted as a war reporter. Closes 20 November 2016  

An exhibition at the Museo Correr in Venice of celestial and terrestrial Globes of the 16th-20th century. The exhibition included the seminal texts which developed the techniques for mapping the world and the heavens, some of which we hold at work, as well as full scale globes plus the printed papers to cover globes. I had never thought of what shape a globe is when flat and printed before so it was fascinating to see these flat representations.