Venice (c)2004
by
J. Martin
The Plaza San Marco (St. Mark's
Square).
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Venice Italy, the city of canals. Here's a
little bit of classyness for you uncultured hoodlems! :-) Venice has some
of the most famous landmarks in the world. It is a series of 16 small islands
surrounded by a lagoon and protected from the Mediterranean Sea by a thin strip of three
barrier islands. These sections of land were eventually built up and interconnected with
streets and bridges to form the city that exists today. Unfortunatly due to increasingly
destructive tidal surges, rainfall, and constant flooding, (alto aqua), Venice is slowly
sinking into the sea and will someday be forever lost . :-(
Having never been there, please don't scold me for not being very accurate,
this is only a basic composition of buildings I made from looking at travel posters and
tourist's photographs on the internet. Luckily, Venice is one of the most photographed
cities in the world and there is definitly no shortage of reference material regarding the
subject.
One of the main concerns of this map was not stretching the textures too
much. Because some of the buildings are so big, when the textures are expanded too much,
they do not light properly. To compensate for this, larger buildings were made in sections
so that the textures would not have to be enlarged more than 2 to 4 times.
The textures and even the famous red and white
posts are real pictures from Venice.
The art theive's hide out.
There are several famous master pieces hidden throughout the city. These
were all painted by Italian artists Boticelli, Da Vinci, Michael Angelo, Raphael, Titian,
and Veronese of the renaissance period, roughly between 1350 and 1600.
Venicians love their art, music and flowers. This map
features 6 different bouques and reference to several famous plays, operas, and a Dean
Martin song. (nope, no relation... I don't think? :-))
Grazie, anche vivere vita a la altissimo,
-J. De St. Martini'
9/20/04
jsmaps@hotmail.com
www.oocities.org/j4unreal