Venice and Padua are neighboring
cities with a topographical and geopolitical distinction. Venice is a
port city in the Venetian Lagoon, which opened up towards Byzantium and
the East. Padua on the mainland was founded in Roman times and is a
university city, a place of Humanism and research into antiquity. The
contributions analyze works of art as aesthetic formulations of their
places of origin, which however also have an effect on and expand their
surroundings. International experts investigate how these two different
concepts stimulated each other in the Early Modern Age, and how the
exchange worked.
