Original Watercolour 12" x 9"
Entrance to the Accademia Bridge in venice. Quite unlike the other major bridges in Venice, the Accademia Bridge is a wooden bridge and almost looks like a temporary bridge. The original Accademia Bridge was built in 1854, when the city inaugurated a steel bridge designed by English architect A.E. Neville (who also designed the original Ponte dei Scalzi near Venice's Santa Lucia Railway Station). It was replaced by what was intended to be a temporary wooden bridge in 1932. Then in 1985, the city held an architectural competition for a new bridge design; in the end, however, the crumbling Mussolini-era bridge was replaced by a new wooden replica of the 1932 structure.
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