“On 29 October, for only the fifth time in the church’s thousand-year history — but the second since 2000 — water penetrated its main body, covering the inlaid marble floor in front of the altar of the Madonna Nicopeia” as the city was flooded. San Marco’s chief administrator said that the historic building “aged 20 years in one day.” — The Art Newspaper
New Project Aims To Recover Historic Writing By Forgotten Women Of Europe
“Carme Font, a lecturer in English literature at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, has been awarded a €1.5m grant by the European Research Council to scour libraries, archives and private collections in search of letters, poems and reflections written by women from 1500 to 1780.” — The Guardian