SOLD PAINTING: Its first name was “Alla Venezia Trionfante”, or “Triumphant Venice”, but in a short few months, Venetians began calling it “Florian’s” after the name of the Caffè’s founder, Floriano Francesconi. This magnificent location, after more than 300 years’s history, is still the place where Venice and the world meet. Comfortably seated in the magnificent halls, completely restored in the mid-nineteenth century, you can breathe the long and lively history of the city that unfolded outside the café’s stained-glass windows: the rise and fall of the Republic of Venice, conspirators plotting the end of the French and, later, Austrian rule – in fact, the wounded from the 1848 uprising were treated inside its Halls