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September 27, 2014
Pastellist and painter Rosalba Carriera was admitted to the Accademia di San Luca in Rome on 27 September 1705.

November 21, 2013
The church of Santa Maria della Salute was constructed as a votive offering to the Virgin Mary to end the plague of 1630 that killed about a third of the Venetian population.

November 2, 2013
The Morgan Library draws from its world-renowned collection of eighteenth-century Venetian drawings for the exhibition Tiepolo, Guardi, and Their World: Eighteenth-Century Venetian Drawings on view through January 5, 2014.