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] "The Soothsayer" by Giovanni Battista Piazzetta is another great 18th century painting and the artist's masterpiece. Zuane Antonio Canal called Canaletto and Francesco Guardi developed a tradition of landscape painting based on views of Venice. Canaletto's "Perspective" and Guardi's "Bacino di San Marco with San Giorgio and Giudecca" and "Fire in the San Marcuola Oil Depot" are their very typical paintings. Pietro Longhi was Venetian painter of contemporary scenes of life. Our favourite of his paintings in the Accademia Galleries is "The Chemist" or "The Spice-vendor's Shop". Special charm to Venetian Settecento was given by Rosalba Carriera, woman pastellist. Among beautiful portraits she had painted by pastel on paper are "Young Lady of the Le Blond Family" and "Young Cavalier" from the Accademia Galleries collection. For the complete view of Venetian Seicento Ca' Rezzonico Museum of 18th Century Venice have to be seen.
Just a piece of the great Accademia Galleries collection is mentioned in our nine tips. Leave a Comment Address: Campo della Carita, DorsoduroPhone: +39 041 5222247Directions: Gallerie Dell'Accademia can easily be reached by vaporetto ("Accademia" station). Working hours: Monday 08:15 am - 2:00 pm / Tuesday to Sunday 08:15 am - 7:15 pm Closed: 1th Jan, 1th May, 25th Dec.
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It is the most beautiful palace in the Venetian floral gothic style. During numerous years the facade was hidden by the works of restoration. So that it is a pleasure to see, after the turn of the Grand Canal at the Rialto bridge, the presently white faηade of the Ca' d' Oro called "golden house" due to the gilt and polychrome external decorations which once adorned its walls.
Some comments here mention a "Moorish influence" or "Islamic architectural influence", this is wrong; it is a style of Byzantine inspiration. When the Ca' d'Oro Palazzo was built in 1430 for the Contarini family, Constantinople had not been taken over by the Turks yet.
Inside the collection Franchetti is certainly estimable but can not be compared with the collections of the Accademia or the museum Correr.
The visit justifies itself more by the beauty of the inner courtyard, the portico onto the Grand Canal and by the enclosed balcony of the principal salon on the "piano nobile". The columns and arches of this balcony have capitals which in turn support a row of quatrefoil windows of great delicacy; above this balcony is another enclosed balcony or loggia of a similar yet even lighter design.
One has a magnificent view, through the beautiful arches, on the Grand Canal, the "Pescheria", the "Fabriche Nuove" and the "Fabriche Vecchie" of the Rialto.
The movement of Vaporetti, Motoscafi, barges of all kind supplying the Mercato, water taxis and gondolas is a spectacle worthwhile by itself to visit the Ca' d'Oro.
The entrance is by the narrow alley which connects the pontoon Ca'd' Oro with Strada Nova.
Opening hours: Tuesday to Sunday 08.15 to 19.15h. On Monday 08.15 - 14.00h.
Last entrance 30 min. before closing time.
Closed 25 December, 1 January and 1 May. Bookings tel. 0415200345
Prices:
Normal price: 5 + reservation 1
Price reduced: 2.50 + reservation 1 for students between 18 and 25 years old.
E.U. citizens free under 18 and over 65;
Citizens of other countries free under 12 years
Address: Ca' d'Oro, CannaregioDirections: Vaporetto linea 1, Ca'd'Oro.
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] Two of Gentile Bellini's late paintings created for Scuola Grande di San Giovanni Evangelista and considered to be his masterpieces are in the Galleries. Both of them "Procession in Piazza San Marco" and "Miracle of the Cross at the Bridge of San Lorenzo" depicts the events with the precious relic of the True Cross brought to Venice in 1369. Giovanni Bellini, the founder of the Venetian school of painting, was one of the greatest and the most influential painters of his time. He raised Venice to a center of Renaissance art that rivaled Florence and Rome. Giovanni Bellini lived a 90 years long and fruitful life. Many of his paintings are treasured in the Accademia Galleries, some of them created in the 2nd half of the 15th century "Madonna degli Alberetti", "San Giobbe Altarpiece", "Madonna and Child with Two Saints (Sacra Conversazione)"
and some the later ones "Pieta", "Virgin in Glory with Saints", "Lamentation over the Dead Christ"
introduced the greatest period in Venetian art Cinquecento.
To be continued in PART IV
Leave a Comment Phone: +39 041 5222247Directions: Gallerie Dell'Accademia can easily be reached by vaporetto ("Accademia" station). Working hours: Monday 08:15 am - 2:00 pm / Tuesday to Sunday 08:15 am - 7:15 pm Closed: 1th Jan, 1th May, 25th Dec.
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] Another family Vivarini gave Venice three respected painters brothers Antonio and Bartolomeo and Antonio's son Alvise. Among their artworks in the Galleries are "Triptych" by Antonio Vivarini, "Conversano Polyptych" and "St Ambrose Polyptych" by Bartolomeo Vivarini and "Virgin and Child Enthroned with Saints (Sacra Conversazione)" by Alvise Vivarini. In the Accademia Galleries are exhibited nine paintings depicting "The Stories from the Life of St Ursula", painted by Vittore Carpaccio for Confraternity of St Ursula. Besides works of Venetians, the most noticable 15th century works of the other Italian artists in the Accademia Galleries are "Saint Jerome and a Donor", tiny painting by Piero della Francesca, one of the supreme artists of the Italien early Renaissance, born in Borgo San Sepulcro, "The Madonna of the Zodiac" by Cosme Tura from Ferrara, "St George" by Andrea Mantegna, several Leonardo da Vinci's drawings of which the most famous is the one called "Vitruvian Man" (it is not permanently exhibited, but could be seen in a rare occasions or with special permit)
To be continued in PART V
Leave a Comment Address: Campo della Carita, DorsoduroPhone: +39 041 5222247Directions: Gallerie Dell'Accademia can easily be reached by vaporetto ("Accademia" station). Working hours: Monday 08:15 am - 2:00 pm / Tuesday to Sunday 08:15 am - 7:15 pm Closed: 1th Jan, 1th May, 25th Dec.
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] "Portrait of a Young Man before a Landscape" by Flemish painter Hans Memling is the great example of Renaissance portrait painting in northern countries.
The 16th century art Cinquecento started in Venice with Giovanni Bellini and continued with his pupils Giorgione and Titian. Giorgio Barbarelli from Castelfranco called Giorgione lived for about 33 years, left a few paintings which can be confidently attributed to him, almost nothing is known about his life, but he is considered to be one of the greatest painters in the history of art. Two of his masterpieces are treasured in the Accademia Galleries. One of them is the famous and mysterious "Tempest", the meaning of which has been greatly debated. It was described by the 16th century Venetian scholar Marcantonio Michiel as "the landscape on canvas with a tempest, a gypsy and soldier in a storm", but recently it is believed that it depicts Demeter and Iasion at the moment he had been killed by Zeus with a thunderbolt. The other is an allegoric portrait called "Col Tempo" or "The Old Woman". We have to mention that we had an opportunity to see Giorgione's only altar-piece, called "Castelfranco Madonna" in the Accademia Galleries where it was exhibited in 2005, after the long restauration in the Accademia Laboratories. This painting is permanently exhibited in Duomo in Castelfranco Veneto, 40 km far from Venice.
To be continued in PART VI
Leave a Comment Address: Campo della Carita, DorsoduroPhone: +39 041 5222247Directions: Gallerie Dell'Accademia can easily be reached by vaporetto ("Accademia" station). Working hours: Monday 08:15 am - 2:00 pm / Tuesday to Sunday 08:15 am - 7:15 pm Closed: 1th Jan, 1th May, 25th Dec.
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] Unlike Giorgione, Tiziano Vecellio called Titian lived for 86 years. He was considered to be the towering genius in his own time, even described by the 16th century Italian painter Gian Paolo Lomazzo as the "sun amidst small stars not only among the Italians but all the painters of the world". His paintings could be seen all over Venice, but also in many world museums. The Accademia Galleries possess several, among them "Presentation of the Virgin at the Temple", "St John the Baptist in the Desert" and marvelous "Pieta", Titian's last painting, considered by many artists and art historians to be the greatest of his works.
Jacopo Robusti called Tintoretto and Paolo Caliari called Veronese were the great masters of the Venetian school and the most successful Venetian painters in the generation after Titian's death. Almost all of his life Tintoretto spent in Venice and most of his works are still in the churches or other buildings for which they had been painted. Nevertheless the Accademia Galleries treasure quite many of Tintoretto's paintings. "The Miracle of St Mark Freeing the Slave", "Creation of the Animals", "Lamentation over the Dead Christ", "The Stealing of the Dead Body of St Mark"
are just some of them.
To be continued in PART VII
Leave a Comment Address: Campo della Carita, DorsoduroPhone: +39 041 5222247Directions: Gallerie Dell'Accademia can easily be reached by vaporetto ("Accademia" station). Working hours: Monday 08:15 am - 2:00 pm / Tuesday to Sunday 08:15 am - 7:15 pm Closed: 1th Jan, 1th May, 25th Dec.
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] Paolo Caliari was called Veronese from his native city of Verona. He learned painting in Verona and in 1553 at the age of 25 he moved to Venice where he spent the rest of his life and created his the most important artworks. The Accademia Galleries treasure Veronese's "Battle of Lepanto", "Mystical Marriage of St Catherine"
and his the best known and one of the most important works magnificent "Christ in the House of Levi", 1280 cm wide and 555 cm high!
Among the other 16th century artworks are "Sacra Conversazione" by Sebastiano Luciani called Sebastiano del Piombo, "Assumption of Mary" by Jacopo Palma called Palma Vecchio, "Portrait of a Gentleman in His Study" by Lorenzo Lotto, "St Lorenzo Giustiniani and Other Saints" by Giovanni Antonio de Sacchis called Pordenone, "St Jerome" by Jacopo da Ponte called Bassano, "Amusements of the Prodigal Son" and "Return of the Prodigal Son" by Jacopo di Antonio Negretti called Palma Giovane
To be continued in PART VIII
Leave a Comment Address: Campo della Carita, DorsoduroPhone: +39 041 5222247Directions: Gallerie Dell'Accademia can easily be reached by vaporetto ("Accademia" station). Working hours: Monday 08:15 am - 2:00 pm / Tuesday to Sunday 08:15 am - 7:15 pm Closed: 1th Jan, 1th May, 25th Dec.
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] After the glorious 16th century, the 17th produced a decline, and therefore the 17th century collection of paintings of the Accademia Galleries is neither numerous nor impressive. Some of the exhibited paintings created in the 17th century are "Melancholy" by Domenico Feti, "Apollo and Marsyas" by German painter Johann Liss, "Crucifixion" by painter and printmaker Giulio Carpioni, "Banquet at the House of Simon" by Bernardo Strozzi, "Annunciation" by painter, poet, and architect Sebastiano Mazzoni, "Crucifixion of St Peter" by Luca Giordano
The 18th century was the last century of Venice independence Napoleon conquered Venice in 1797 and ended the fascinating century of its history Venice was, during the Settecento, perhaps the most refined and glamorous city in Europe. Giovanni Baptista Tiepolo was the last important Venetian figure painter and one of the greatest decorative artists of the Rococo. Many of his paintings can be seen in churches and palaces of Venice. Among his works in the Accademia Galleries are "Apollo and Marsyas", "The Rape of Europa" and brilliant tondo "Discovery of the True Cross".
To be continued in PART IX
Leave a Comment Address: Campo della Carita, DorsoduroPhone: +39 041 5222247Directions: Gallerie Dell'Accademia can easily be reached by vaporetto ("Accademia" station). Working hours: Monday 08:15 am - 2:00 pm / Tuesday to Sunday 08:15 am - 7:15 pm Closed: 1th Jan, 1th May, 25th Dec.
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] The highlight of the Ca' Rezzonico interior is the ballroom, the largest existing room in a private Venetian residence, measuring 14Χ25 m. The ballroom was created between 1752 and 1756 by Giorgio Massari and it has quite original appearance today. It extends over the two floors and it was probably inspired by the ballroom of Palazzo Zenobio created about half a century earlier by Antonio Gaspari. Even the central ceiling fresco has the theme similar to the one in Palazzo Zenobio it is "Apollo's Carriage" painted by Giovanni Battista Crosato. But the most exquisite artworks in the ballroom are two ebony statues of "Ethiopian Warriors" made by Andrea Brustolon "nude, very tall and virile, they are armed with clubs, have very white eyes in glass paste and each has a horse's head at his feet." In the room called Brustolon Room, among many of Brustolon's works, there is Vase-stand with Hercules and Moors "Allegory of Strenght" considered to be the greatest masterpiece of 18th century Veneto woodcarving.
In other richly decorated rooms there are ceiling paintings created in the Baroque manner with the aim to create illusions of limitless space, such as "Allegory of Merit Accompanied by Nobility and Virtue", "The Triumph of Zephyr and Flora"
by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo or "Triumph of Diana" by Gianantonio Guardi.
To be continued in PART III
Leave a Comment Address: Ca' Rezzonico, DorsoduroDirections: Ca' Rezzonico is located on Canal Grande, not far from Campo Santa Margherita. The nearest vaporetto station is "Ca' Rezzonico" but palace can be reached just via Campo San Barnaba.
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] Another astonishing part of the museum is the one with frescoes by Giandomenico Tiepolo from villa in Zianigo, previously owned by the painter's family. Tiepolo's frescoes were placed in small rooms, in a recomposition that closely repeats the original one, though with some differences. The frescoes depict the stories of Pulcinella, a classical character that originated in the Commedia dell'arte of the 17th century "The Swing of Pulcinella", "Pulcinella in Love", "Pulcinella and the Tumblers"
The museum was enriched by two donations of paintings in 2001 the first by Edigio Martini and the second by Ferruccio Mestrovich. The paintings of those two collections are exhibited on the 3rd floor and in the area made of the attic the 4th floor.
Ca' Rezzonico is one of the finest Venetian museums. It is of very unique character because the objects designed for great palaces are displayed in a palace, thus the contents and the container harmonize in a way not possible in a purpose built museum. Leave a Comment Address: Ca' Rezzonico, DorsoduroDirections: Ca' Rezzonico is located on Canal Grande, not far from Campo Santa Margherita. The nearest vaporetto station is "Ca' Rezzonico" but palace can be reached just via Campo San Barnaba.
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