The very example of Venetian Baroque Architecture, by Baldassarre Longhena (1631-81), dedicated to the Virgin Mary in thanksgiving for the end of the plague that had killed about a third of Venice's population in 1630. 

Every year, on November 21, Venetians built a temporary bridge of boats that cross the Grand Canal, connecting San Moisé and Santa Maria del Giglio, for the health's day procession, in Madonna honour. Thousands of people cross the votive bridge and visit the main altar of the imposing Salute Church to give thanks and ask the Virgin Mary to intercede for their health.

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Beyond the pink and blue phases which brought him to the fringes of Paris, under the influence of African sculpture, Picasso left his mark upon the history of painting in 1907 with the renowned Demoiselles d'Avignon, then with the collages and papier-collées and with the insertion onto a canvas surface of any kind of three-dimensional object, where vision multiplied the viewpoints and cancelled classical perspective, where art was no longer imitation but rather "a conception which tends to elevate itself until creation", as Guillaume Apollinaire affirmed in 1911 (the year in which the term "Cubism" became popular).

At Palazzo Grassi, François Pinault inaugurated, last month, the first of a sequence of expositions dedicated to the strong points of his contemporary art collection, placing on display works of sixteen artists who have expressed their talent in painting and sculpture, following personal paths of reflection and approach to techniques and materials.