Article "Vanishing Venice: A City Swamped by a Sea of Tourists" published in International herald tribune during the 2006 EAJRS Annual Conference, which I mentioned to some of the participants, is also found at URL http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/01/world/europe/01venice.html?ex=11604528....
The following Japanese imprint on Venetian paintings that has recently been received through the Japan Art Catalogue Project originally established by ACE Japan, with support from the Japan Foundation, might be of some interest to those attending the upcoming EAJRS Conference in Venice.
We hope that you have spent a peaceful and blissful Christmas time and we wish you on behalf of the board of the EAJRS, a happy and fruitful New Year 2006.