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DescriptionTELIER / WORKSHOP IN VENICE A DYNASTY OF MARBLE MASTERS
Venice is the city of stone for excellence: marble, an elegant and fascinating material, is everywhere. Always used to embellish, but also to build, it has been chosen by all the architects who have worked for the Serenissima during the past centuries. It is natural, therefore, that a workshop for sculpturing marble could not find a better position than in the Cannaregio quarter and in the courtyard of one of the most charming gothic palaces in Venice. This story begins in about 1900, when Romeo Dall'Era, teacher of sculpture, just graduated from the Institute of Arts, decided to open the first Stone Art Workshop in the garden of a little palace, which was already a marble-yard.
Dall'Era immediately made himself popular with the Venetian aristocracy and had the first orders from these noble families. They were mostly restorations inside palaces and churches, then these restorations gradually became real recons...

Mark was born in Akron, Ohio on September 8th, 1963. His interest in photography began at a very early age. He enjoys the starkness of working with black and white spending hours in dark rooms perfecting his craft. He took that initial knowledge using it as a springboard to what his work has become today. Mark credits his artistic inspiration from his parents John and Ruth Dunn and his husband Russ Smith. Professionally his influences have been from Andy Warhol, Keith Haring, and Peter Max. In Mark's own quote ' Expressing distinctions between worlds of contrast brings understanding to our own. To understand our own is when we truly love ourselves ' Mark brings his personal philosophy of the Universal Laws of Attraction into a discipline...