In 2009, American sculptor Charles Ray (born 1953) installed "Boy with Frog" at the Punta della Dogana on Giudecca island, sestiere of Dorsoduro, Venice, Italy, Europe. The white eight-foot-tall sculpture depicts a boy holding a large frog above Giudecca Canal. (The sculpture calls to mind the Apollo Sauroktonos, an ancient Roman sculpture at the Musée du Louvre in Paris of a nude adolescent reaching out his arm to catch a lizard climbing a tree.) Venice (Venezia) is the capital of Italy's Veneto region, named for the ancient Veneti people from the 10th century BC. The romantic "City of Canals" stretches across 117 small islands in the marshy Venetian Lagoon along the Adriatic Sea Europe.
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