place_of_birth francesco vecellio
Trentino - Alto Adige / Südtirol (; ) is an autonomous region in ___MASK77___ . Since the 1970s , most legislative and administrative powers have been transferred to the two self - governing provinces that make up the region : Trentino and South Tyrol . The Province ___MASK89___ Belluno is a province in the Veneto region ___MASK89___ Italy . Its capital is the city ___MASK89___ Belluno . The Gallerie dell ' Accademia is a museum gallery ___MASK89___ pre - 19th - century art in Venice , ___MASK77___ . It is housed in the Scuola della Carità on the south bank ___MASK89___ the Grand Canal , within the sestiere ___MASK89___ Dorsoduro . It was originally the gallery ___MASK89___ the Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia , the art academy ___MASK89___ Venice , from which it became independent in 1879 , and for which the Ponte dell ' Accademia and the Accademia boat landing station for the " vaporetto " water bus are named . The two institutions remained in the same building until 2004 , when the art school moved to the Ospedale degli Incurabili . ___MASK46___ , officially the Italian ___MASK88___ , is a unitary parliamentary ___MASK88___ in Europe . Located in the heart of the Mediterranean Sea , ___MASK46___ shares open land borders with France , Switzerland , Austria , Slovenia , San Marino and Vatican City . ___MASK46___ covers an area of and has a largely temperate seasonal climate and Mediterranean climate ; due to its shape , it is often referred to in ___MASK46___ as " lo Stivale " ( the Boot ). With 61 million inhabitants , it is the fourth most populous EU member state . ___MASK83___ , is a town and province in the Veneto region ___MASK89___ ___MASK77___ . Located about north ___MASK89___ Venice , ___MASK83___ is the capital ___MASK89___ the province ___MASK89___ ___MASK83___ and the most important city in the Eastern Dolomiti ' s region . With its roughly 36 , 000 inhabitants , it is the largest populated area ___MASK89___ Valbelluna . It is one ___MASK89___ the 15 municipalities ___MASK89___ the Dolomiti Bellunesi National Park . ___MASK9___ is a " comune " ( municipality ) in the province of Belluno in the Italian region of Veneto , about north of Venice and about northeast of Belluno . " Pieve " means " Parish church ". It is the birthplace of the Italian painter Titian . The Ponte dell ' Accademia is one ___MASK89___ only four bridges to span the Grand Canal in Venice , Italy . It crosses near the southern end ___MASK89___ the canal , and is named for the Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia , which from 1807 to 2004 was housed in the Scuola della Carità together with the Gallerie dell ' Accademia , which is still there . The ___MASK81___ links the sestieri ___MASK89___ Dorsoduro and San Marco . ___MASK57___ - Venezia Giulia is one ___MASK89___ the 20 regions ___MASK89___ Italy , and one ___MASK89___ five autonomous regions with special statute . The capital is ___MASK56___ . ( Note that Venezia , i . e . Venice , is " not " in this region , despite the name .) It has an area ___MASK89___ 7 , 858 km² and about 1 . 2 million inhabitants . A natural opening to the sea for many Central European countries , the region is traversed by the major transport routes between the east and west ___MASK89___ southern Europe . It encompasses the historical - geographical region ___MASK89___ ___MASK57___ and a small portion ___MASK89___ the historical region ___MASK89___ Venezia Giulia ( known in English also as Julian March ), each with its own distinct history , traditions and identity . The name ___MASK89___ the region was spelled ___MASK57___  Venezia Giulia until 2001 , when , in connection with a modification ___MASK89___ article nr . 116 ___MASK89___ the Italian constitution , the official spelling " ___MASK57___ Venezia Giulia " was adopted . Sappada ( Sappada Bavarian ___MASK6___ : " Plodn "; ) is a " comune " ( municipality ) in the Province ___MASK89___ Belluno in the Italian region ___MASK89___ Veneto , located about north ___MASK89___ Venice and about northeast ___MASK89___ Belluno . As ___MASK89___ 31 December 2004 , it had a population ___MASK89___ 1 , 339 and an area ___MASK89___ . History ( from Greek , " historia ", meaning " inquiry , knowledge acquired by investigation ") is the study ___MASK89___ the past as it is described in written documents . Events occurring before written record are considered prehistory . It is an umbrella term that relates to past events as well as the memory , discovery , collection , organization , presentation , and interpretation ___MASK89___ information about these events . Scholars who write about history are called historians . Tiziano Vecelli or Tiziano Vecellio ( 1488 / 1490  27 August 1576 ), known in English as Titian , was an Italian painter , the ___MASK3___ important member of the 16th - century Venetian school . He was born in ___MASK9___ , near Belluno ( in Veneto , Republic of Venice ). During his lifetime he was often called " da Cadore ", taken from the place of his birth . A World Heritage Site is a landmark which has been officially recognized by the United Nations , specifically by UNESCO . Sites are selected on the basis ___MASK89___ having cultural , historical , scientific or some other form ___MASK89___ significance , and they are legally protected by international treaties . UNESCO regards these sites as being important to the collective interests ___MASK89___ humanity . The Venetian Lagoon is an enclosed bay ___MASK89___ the Adriatic Sea , in ___MASK77___ , in which the city ___MASK89___ Venice is situated . Its name in the Italian and Venetian languages , ' cognate ___MASK89___ Latin ', " lake " has provided the international name for an enclosed , shallow embayment ___MASK89___ salt water , a lagoon . Architecture ( Latin " architectura ", from the Greek  " arkhitekton " " architect ", from  - " chief " and  " builder ") is both the process and the product ___MASK89___ planning , designing , and constructing buildings and other physical structures . Architectural works , in the material form ___MASK89___ buildings , are often perceived as cultural symbols and as works ___MASK89___ art . Historical civilizations are often identified with their surviving architectural achievements . In the history ___MASK89___ Europe , the Middle Ages or medieval period lasted from the 5th to the 15th century . It began with the fall ___MASK89___ the Western ___MASK48___ and merged into the Renaissance and the Age ___MASK89___ Discovery . The Middle Ages is the middle period ___MASK89___ the three traditional divisions ___MASK89___ Western history : classical antiquity , the medieval period , and the modern period . The medieval period is itself subdivided into the Early , High , and Late Middle Ages . Cadore ( Sappada ___MASK6___ : " Kadour ") is a historical region in the Italian region ___MASK89___ Veneto , in the northernmost part ___MASK89___ the province ___MASK89___ Belluno bordering on Austria , the Trentino - Alto Adige / Südtirol and Friuli - Venezia Giulia . It is watered by the Piave River which has its source in the Carnic Alps . Once an undeveloped and poor district , the former " contado " ( countship ) ___MASK89___ Cadore now has a thriving economy based on tourism and a small manufacturing ___MASK61___ , specialising in the production ___MASK89___ glasses . ___MASK57___ is an area ___MASK89___ Northeast Italy with its own particular cultural and historical identity . It comprises the major part ___MASK89___ the autonomous region ___MASK57___ - Venezia Giulia , i . e . the administrative provinces ___MASK89___ Udine , Pordenone , and Gorizia , excluding ___MASK56___ . ___MASK77___ is a cultural and geographical region , without any administrative purpose , used to indicate the northern part of the Italian state , also informally referred as " Il Nord ", " Settentrione " or " Alta Italia ". It consists of 8 regions in ___MASK77___ : Aosta Valley , Piedmont , Liguria , Lombardy , Emilia - Romagna , Veneto , Friuli - Venezia Giulia , Trentino - Alto Adige / Südtirol . According to the 2011 census , its population was 27 , 213 , 372 . For statistic purposes , the Istituto Nazionale di Statistica ( ISTAT ) uses the term Northwest Italy and Northeast Italy for identifying two of the five statistical regions in its reporting . These same subdivisions are used to demarcate first level Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics ( NUTS ) regions (" NUTS 1 regions ") within the European Union , and the Italian constituencies for the European Parliament . Dorsoduro is one ___MASK89___ the six sestieri ___MASK89___ Venice , in ___MASK77___ . Historical regions ( or historical countries ) are delimitations ___MASK89___ geographic areas for studying and analysing social development ___MASK89___ period - specific cultures without any reference to contemporary political , economic or social organisations . The fundamental principle underlying this view is that older political and mental structures exist which exercise greater influence on the spatial - social identity ___MASK89___ individuals than is understood by the contemporary world , bound to and often blinded by its own worldview - e . g . the focus on the nation - state . Definitions ___MASK89___ regions vary , and regions can include macroregions such as Europe , territories ___MASK89___ traditional states , or smaller microregional areas . A geographic proximity is the often required precondition for emergence ___MASK89___ a regional identity . In Europe the regional identities are often derived from the Migration Period , but for the contemporary perspective are related to the 1918 - 1920 ___MASK99___ ___MASK89___ territorial transformation , and another in the post - Cold War period . The Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia is a public tertiary academy ___MASK89___ art in Venice , Italy . Glasses , also known as eyeglasses or spectacles , are devices consisting ___MASK89___ glass or ___MASK64___ plastic lenses mounted in a frame that holds them in front ___MASK89___ a person ' s eyes , typically using a ___MASK81___ over the nose and arms which rest over the ears . Glasses are typically used for vision correction , such as with reading glasses and glasses used for nearsightedness . Safety glasses provide eye protection against flying debris for construction workers or lab technicians ; these glasses may have protection for the sides ___MASK89___ the eyes as well as in the lenses . Some types ___MASK89___ safety glasses are used to protect against visible and near - visible light or radiation . Glasses are worn for eye protection in some sports , such as squash . Glasses wearers may use a strap to prevent the glasses from falling off during movement or sports . Wearers ___MASK89___ glasses that are used only part ___MASK89___ the ___MASK99___ may have the glasses attached to a cord that goes around their neck , to prevent the loss ___MASK89___ the glasses . The Carnic Alps are a range ___MASK89___ the Southern Limestone Alps in Austria and northeastern Italy . They are within Austrian East ___MASK34___ and Carinthia , and Italian Friuli ( Province ___MASK89___ Udine ) and marginally in Veneto ___MASK89___ the Friuli - Venezia Giulia region . ___MASK11___ (; ) is a city in northeastern ___MASK46___ and the capital ___MASK89___ the Veneto region . It is situated across a group ___MASK89___ 117 small islands that are separated by canals and linked by bridges . These are located in the shallow Venetian Lagoon , an enclosed bay that lies between the mouths ___MASK89___ the Po and the Piave Rivers . Parts ___MASK89___ ___MASK11___ are renowned for the beauty ___MASK89___ their settings , their architecture , and artwork . The lagoon and a part ___MASK89___ the city are listed as a World Heritage Site . Veneto ( or ) or Venetia ( more specifically "") is one ___MASK89___ the twenty regions ___MASK89___ Italy . Its population is about five million , ranking fifth in Italy . The region ' s capital and largest city is Venice . A cultural movement is a change in the way a number ___MASK89___ different disciplines approach their work . This embodies all art forms , the sciences , and philosophies . Historically , different nations or regions ___MASK89___ the world have gone through their own independent sequence ___MASK89___ movements in culture , but as world communications have accelerated this geographical distinction has become less distinct . When cultural movements go through revolutions from one to the next , genres tend to get attacked and mixed up , and often new genres are generated and old ones fade . These changes are often reactions against the prior cultural form , which typically has grown stale and repetitive . An obsession emerges among the mainstream with the new movement , and the old one falls into neglect - sometimes it dies out entirely , but often it chugs along favored in a few disciplines and occasionally making reappearances ( sometimes prefixed with " neo -"). The Renaissance was a period in European history , from the 14th to the 17th century , regarded as the cultural ___MASK81___ between the Middle Ages and modern history . It started as a cultural movement in Italy in the Late Medieval period and later spread to the rest of Europe , marking the beginning of the Early Modern Age . Francesco Vecellio ( c . 1475 -- 1560 ) was an Italian painter ___MASK89___ the early Renaissance , best known as the elder brother ___MASK89___ the painter Titian . In his youth , he was a soldier . As a painter , he was mainly active in 1520 - 1530s in Cadore . In 1524 , he signed an altarpiece for San Vito in Cadore . In 1540s , he painted a polyptych at Candide . In late 1540s he painted the organ shutters ___MASK89___ San Salvatore in Venice . He painted an Annunciation for San Nicola di Bari , now in the Gallerie dell ' Accademia . Tourism is travel for pleasure ; also the theory and practice ___MASK89___ touring , the business ___MASK89___ attracting , accommodating , and entertaining tourists , and the business ___MASK89___ operating tours . Tourism may be international , or within the traveller ' s country . The World Tourism Organization defines tourism more generally , in terms which go " beyond the common perception ___MASK89___ tourism as being limited to holiday activity only ", as people " traveling to and staying in places outside their usual environment for not more than one consecutive year for leisure , business and other purposes ". Europe is a continent that comprises the westernmost part ___MASK89___ Eurasia . Europe is bordered by the Arctic Ocean to the north , the ___MASK35___ to the west , and the Mediterranean Sea to the south . To the east and southeast , Europe is generally considered as separated from Asia by the watershed divides ___MASK89___ the Ural and Caucasus Mountains , the Ural River , the Caspian and Black Seas , and the waterways ___MASK89___ the Turkish Straits . Yet the non - oceanic borders ___MASK89___ Europe  a concept dating back to classical antiquity  are arbitrary . The primarily physiographic term " continent " as applied to Europe also incorporates cultural and political elements whose discontinuities are not always reflected by the continent ' s current ___MASK72___ boundaries . A sestiere ( plural : sestieri ) is a subdivision ___MASK89___ certain Italian towns and cities . The word is from " sesto ", or sixth ; and is thus used only for towns divided into six districts . The best - known example is the " sestieri " ___MASK89___ Venice , but Ascoli Piceno , ___MASK52___ , Milan and ___MASK1___ , for example , were also divided into " sestieri ". The medieval Lordship ___MASK89___ Negroponte , on the island ___MASK89___ ___MASK59___ , was also at times divided into six districts , each with a separate ruler , through the arbitration ___MASK89___ Venice , which were known as " sestieri ". The island ___MASK89___ Crete , a Venetian colony ( the " Kingdom ___MASK89___ Candia ") from the Fourth Crusade , was also divided into six parts , named after the " sestieri " ___MASK89___ Venice herself , while the capital Candia retained the status ___MASK89___ a " comune " ___MASK89___ Venice . The island ___MASK89___ Burano north ___MASK89___ Venice is also subdivided into " sestieri ". The ___MASK67___ , or traditionally known as the Most Serene ___MASK67___ , was a state originating from the lagoon communities in the area of Venice , now northeastern Italy . It existed from the late seventh century AD until 1797 . Although it had a long history of war and conquest , the republic ' s modern reputation is chiefly based on its status as an economic and trading power .