Days before the opening of the 1st Venice Biennale, every city discussed the painting Supremo Convegno, by the Italian artist Giacomo Grosso, without having seen it yet.

In 1895, the 1st Venice Biennale puts censorship to...

The first major scandal of censorship of a work of art, involving even the Vatican, occurs in 1895, in the middle of the Belle Époque, when the...