This year, Emilio Vedova will be speaking to the whole of Venice, his works will be “living” in some of the most prestigious cultural venues of the city.
These venues include three “cult” museums – the Museo Correr, Ca’ Rezzonico – Museo del Settecento veneziano and Ca’ Pesaro, Galleria Internazionale d’Arte Moderna – whose permanent...
The Parco della Laguna di Venezia is organizing a competition for infant and primary schools in the Procinve of Venice with the aim of ecnouraging knowledge about the lagoon, and to make children more aware of the protection of this heritage, as well as to glean suggestions fot its sustainable use.
This year, participants are invited to explore, discover and learn...
Live Music to welcome spring at The Greenhouse! For the detailed program, please visit the facebook page: Serate Musicali in Serra dei Giardini or the website at the page: pagina delle attività.
Manet. Return to Venice is the name of the exhibition the Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia will host from 24th April to 18th August 2013 in the monumental rooms of the Doge’s Palace, planned with the special collaboration of the Musée D’Orsay in Paris, which possesses the largest number of masterpieces by this extraordinary painter.
The exhibition arises from a need to...
The extensive storerooms of Palazzo Mocenigo housing the rich collections of clothes, garments, accessories and fabrics offer the public an unusual visit to places that are usually only open for employees.
This is an opportunity that is not to be missed when visiting the museum and offers an itinerary through fashion in the eighteenth century with a specialised guide.
From April 2013, “...
Gouvy was a man of dual, French and German, culture, which can be felt in his works. Being a man of some means, he was not obliged to earn a living from music and he divided his time between Paris, Leipzig and Hombourg-Haut (in the Moselle department, Lorraine), where he would often go to seek inspiration (his brother owned a metallurgical establishment there). Although he was held in high regard...
Francesco Maria Piave (Murano, 1810 – Milan, 1876), was a celebrated librettist and composer from Murano, whose most prolific work was for Giuseppe Verdi, for whom he wrote ten librettos, including for “La dame aux camélias” by Alexandre Dumas.
The Casa Goldoni has a precious and unpublished collection of 20 autograph librettos by Piave, which come from the Museo del...
The grandiose palace, now seat of the Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna, was built in the second half of the seventeenth century for the noble and wealthy Pesaro family, a project by the greatest Venetian baroque architect, Baldassarre Longhena, who also designed the church of the Salute and Ca’ Rezzonico.
Ca’ Pesaro contains important nineteenth- and twentieth-century...
The Oriental Art Museum is located in the ancient palace owned by the Pesaro family at San Stae, facing the Grand Canal. The building was designed by Baldassare Longhena.
The Museum is one of the most important collection of Japanese art of the Edo period. This collection was bought by Prince Henry II of Borbone, Count of Bardi during his travel to Asia, bewteen 1887 and 1889. More than 30.000...
On 8 April 2013, Fragile?, an exhibition curated by Mario Codognato, will open to the public on the San Giorgio Maggiore island inVenice.
The exhibition will feature more than 30 artworks by some of the most interesting international artists of our time who have experimented with industrial and found glass – from Marcel Duchamp and Joseph Beuys, to Ai Weiwei, Damien Hirst, Giovanni Anselmo...