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Bridge of Sighs?

posted by [personal profile] owlfish at 06:48pm on 04/11/2009 under
Bridge of Sighs


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posted by [identity profile] daisho.livejournal.com at 09:29pm on 04/11/2009
Mum and Dad showed me that from their recent holiday snaps of Venice. I was absolutely outraged anyone would agree to such an awful thing -- but from what little I understand of them, Italian heritage laws aren't quite as tight as they could be.
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posted by [personal profile] owlfish at 09:35pm on 04/11/2009
It's more sensible than it looks. It covers over the scaffolding for the cleaning and maintenance that's going on underneath those ads. Venice has been doing picture and advertising scaffolding more and more in the past few years - the alternative is looking at bare scaffolding after all. Some of the results have been tasteful; many have been bizarre.

The "sky" around the Bridge of Sighs is, at least, hilariously surreal. We couldn't stop laughing as we went under it. I wasn't quite as taken by the series of towers whose images graced the Clock Tower in St. Mark's Square while it was under renovation - including the Big Ben Clock Tower. (Not what one normally goes to Venice to see.)
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posted by [identity profile] sioneva.livejournal.com at 11:56pm on 04/11/2009
Ah, scaffolding - okay. I was wondering if it was some performance piece, a la Christo.

How odd.
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posted by [personal profile] owlfish at 09:36pm on 04/11/2009
That's not to say that ALL large-scale ads in Venice cover scaffolding; but this does and many do.
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posted by [identity profile] geesepalace.livejournal.com at 08:32am on 05/11/2009
Actually I think that all the billboards in Venice do cover scaffolding. The quaint, old-fashioned way of concealing the working structure was with an image of the building that was being restored; but -- it goes without saying -- there was no money in it.
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posted by [identity profile] steer.livejournal.com at 10:46am on 05/11/2009
It was something similar when I was there a few months ago. Actually, I quite like the look of it (though it is undoubtedly very strange).
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posted by [identity profile] printperson.livejournal.com at 02:39pm on 05/11/2009
It occured to me that the il Ponte dei Sospiri (the Bridge of Sighs) is now covered by advertising by advertising brought to you by "Geox, la scarpa che respira" (the shoe that breathes). So should it now be, "la scarpa che sospira"? I think there is something going on here. Great photo, by the way.
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posted by [identity profile] printperson.livejournal.com at 07:13pm on 06/11/2009
Or maybe it is the Bridge of (Shoe) Sizes.
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