This ‘immersive room’ transports you back to eighteenth-century Venice, the most intriguing of the major European cities of the age. Parades and processions, state ceremonies and sacred liturgies in places of power and faith, holidays and games all take place in a spectacular documentary about the institutions, rituals and customs of the Serenissima Republic. Gabriel Bella’s (Venice, 1730 - 1799) paintings portray an entire community and its popular events. For the backgrounds, Bella draws inspiration from the landscape artists, in particular Canaletto. However, the life spilling out of each painting is all his own.