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Welcome to Venipedia
A free, data-driven resource all about Venice, Italy.
Venipedia is a wiki-based website dedicated to the study of the city of Venice, Italy. It is intended as a repository for unique information and data primarily collected by the Venice Project Center at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. With decades of projects dedicated to the study of Venetian architecture, art, bridges, canals, churches, ecosystems, infrastructure, tourism, transportation, and more, we are now releasing our data to the world through this site.
There are already many Venetian resources on the internet, including both the English and Italian Wikipedias and various Italian-language sites. While these resources are adequate for some purposes, there are also some problems associated with these sources. For example, Wikipedia is a general-knowledge encyclopedia that provides neither detailed information nor concrete data.
This website aims to fill the gap of of an English-language, data-driven website about Venice. Please check back regularly for updates.
Symbols are a sub-set of material culture that have traditionally been used in Venice to denote ownership of a building or affiliation with a particular organization. The majority of the symbols found within the city are confraternity symbols, which were used to denote the city's scuole. There were six prominent scuole in Venice that were referred to as the Scuole Grandi, and to whom most of the confraternity symbols relate. Other types of symbols refer to hospitals and various religious organizations. The majority of the symbols found in Venice are classified as reliefs, or low reliefs in particular.
A confraternity symbol from the Scuola Grande di San Rocco
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