The Venetian Dreamer: The Life and Art of Antonio Stom In the luminous, salt-kissed atmosphere of eighteenth-century Venice, a period where the fading grandeur of the Renaissance met the theatrical energy of the Baroque, there emerged an artist capable of weaving pure illusion from pigment and light. Antonio Stom, often affectionately known as “Tonino,” was more than a mere chronicler of his city; he was a master of the imagined lands…