CURIOUS CALLBACK: Episode #17: The Casino of the Spirits

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ArtCurious

Arts, History, Visual Arts

4.8 • 847 Ratings

🗓️ 27 September 2021

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Venice-- it's the most serene and beautiful city in Italy, and possibly the whole world. But Venice at night-- all darkened and quiet-- takes up the most space in my imagination. I seriously love the depictions of Venice as enigmatic, shadowy, and even dangerous. All of this lends Venice this air of inscrutability and mystery. And over time, locals and visitors alike have reveled in this sensation as fodder for myth-making and storytelling. Some stories really stick, lasting for centuries and becoming embedded into the city itself, through its buildings, monuments, and specific locations. And there’s one building that has had plenty of legends built around it. This particular elegant structure had an illustrious past, having once been a meeting place where Italian Renaissance artists discussed their craft, caroused, and gambled. But it’s also the location where relationships soured, crimes were committed, and death inevitably followed. Today, some people won’t even enter this particular building because it is feared to be haunted, cursed… or both. Today we're calling back to an episode of the first season of ArtCurious to talk about another potentially cursed locale in Venice, Italy: the so-called Casino of the Spirits. Please SUBSCRIBE and REVIEW our show on Apple Podcasts and FOLLOW on Spotify Twitter / Instagram / Facebook / Fireside Don’t forget to show your support for our show by purchasing ArtCurious swag from TeePublic! Want to advertise on ArtCurious? We work exclusively with AdvertiseCast to manage all our ads. Join us today! SPONSORS: The Zebra: Compare home and auto insurance on one independent marketplace, for free Indeed: Listeners get a free $75 credit to upgrade your job post BetterHelp: Listeners enjoy 10% off your first month of counseling Feals: Become a member and get 40% automatically taken off your first three months of premium CBD with free shipping Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:31.1	Hey there are curious listeners. We are preparing for the launch of our 10th season later next
0:36.5	month. But we are not going to leave you
0:38.4	high and dry during this time, so we are re-releasing some oldies from our back catalog for you to
0:44.0	enjoy. And today's show is another one, like the episode that we released earlier during our break,
0:49.9	on Edvard Munk and the disastrous reasons behind his famous painting The Scream. The re-release
0:56.1	today does link back to our recent season on Cursed Art. I mentioned in the episode on the
1:02.2	Palazzo Dario that I almost wrote that specific episode back in season one, and instead I did
1:08.9	a different story about creepy Venice. So I am releasing that one
1:13.3	again here. Please listen back to episode number 17, The Casino of the Spirits. To me, there's no
1:22.6	city in the world that can top Venice, Italy, that glittering vision resting on a lagoon, filled with architectural
1:28.9	wonders, a hotbed of musical and artistic creation throughout history, glowing with pink and gold.
1:35.3	When I first visited the city nearly 20 years ago, I felt in love immediately with the winding
1:40.3	paths leading from one bridge to another, carrying me along past Byzantine churches
1:45.3	and crumbling Renaissance palazos. This first trip to Venice was taken in summertime,
1:50.3	so my impressions were colored by heat, a shimmering, intense wave that sent me back to my hotel
1:55.7	and ready for bed, long before the sun dipped below the horizon. It wasn't until many years
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