San Michele is Venice's cemetery - a role it has borne with dignity since the early 1800s, when Napoleon's occupying forces decreed that burials within the city of Venice were unsanitary, and therefore forbidden.  The island of Isola San Michele was selected to be an “island for the dead”. 

This print panel submission represents my own personal response to this evocative and moving place.  It is my intention to portray and reveal some of the Italianate sculptural beauty, sadness and grief, pathos, atmosphere and mood that I felt during the many hours I spent exploring and photographing in this location.