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The view from the Bridge of Sighs was the last view of Venice that convicts saw before their imprisonment. The bridge's English name was bestowed by Lord Byron in the 19th century as a translation from the Italian "Ponte dei sospiri", [2] [3] from the suggestion that prisoners would sigh at their final view of beautiful Venice through the window before being taken down to their cells.
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Venice, the Bridge of Sighs is an 1840 cityscape painting by the English artist J.M.W. Turner. [1] It depicts a view of Venice, then part of the Austrian Empire, looking towards the famous Bridge of Sighs. [2] The Doge's Palace and the City Prison are either side of the bridge. He displayed the painting at the Royal Academy's Summer Exhibition ...
However, there are some classical features – for example, since the 16th century, the palace has been linked to the prison by the Bridge of Sighs. As well as being the ducal residence, the palace housed political institutions of the Republic of Venice until the Napoleonic occupation of the city in 1797
Bridge of Sighs, Ducal Palace and Custom-House, Venice: Canaletti Painting label QS:Lfr,"Le pont des soupirs, le palais des doges et la douane, Venise. Canaletto peignant"
Most of us had the sinking suspicion that something like this was bound to happen sooner or later, kind of like oiling our seas into extinction: One of Europe's great landmarks, Venice's Bridge of ...
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The official position taken by the Wikimedia Foundation is that "faithful reproductions of two-dimensional public domain works of art are public domain".This photographic reproduction is therefore also considered to be in the public domain in the United States.