La Stamperia del Ghetto

Venice


Keep your eyes peeled for Enzo Aboaf’s wonderful Ghetto gallery filled with rare original copperplate prints and etchings of the Ghetto and Venice. In among them is a stash of Emanuele 'Lele' Luzzati’s highly collectible Chagall-style illustrations. Luzzati was a Genoese Jew who made his name as a theatre designer, but also undertook commissions for posters, books and ceramics.


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