The Venice in My Mind

Some people are adventure travelers.   Others travel for food, sex, shopping or sport.  I travel for art.

By that I mean two things.  First of all, I travel to see art.  Get me to a new city and my first stop is the art museum.  But I also travel to see the places that have entranced me in pictures.  I went to Honfleur in Brittany because of a Seurat painting; I went to Provence after seeing a show at the Musee des Beaux Arts in Montreal and traveled to Delft in search of Vermeer's "Little Street" and "View of Delft."

As to Venice, where to start?  Monet?  Canaletto?  Guardi?  Manet?  Sargent?  I'll be looking for all of them as I cruise the canals and wander the back alleys of La Serenissima.