What do the struggles of 15th-century Venice have to do with America's troubles in Iraq? A lot, in the view of a group of old-guard Washington conservatives who sponsored a conference last week to ...

John Julius Norwich is the author of "A History of Venice." The first paragraph of the jacket copy for “Venice: Lion City” hails it as a tour de force. Blurb writers, like writers of epitaphs, are not ...

For centuries, Venice ruled the seas and dominated Mediterranean trade. From its stunning wealth and naval might to its political intrigue and eventual decline, the rise and fall of Venice is one of ...

Youngsters play soccer near a fort at the port of Korčula, which once served as the arsenal of the Venetian Empire in the Adriatic. Josef Polleross, Anzenberger/Redux For me, it is the most beautiful ...

The Frist Art Museum to present Venice and the Ottoman Empire, an exhibition that explores the artistic and cultural exchange between the Republic of Venice and the Ottoman Empire over four centuries.

“Venice and the Ottoman Empire,” at the North Carolina Museum of Art, is a luxurious introduction to the complex, symbiotic relationship between two rival maritime empires. It’s an import-export tale ...

Venice is famous for its serene beauty but, as Stella Tillyard discovers in City of Fortune: How Venice Won and Lost a Naval Empire by Roger Crowley, a vivid account, the republic once ruthlessly ...