Other Venetian Museums
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| Peggy Guggenheim Collection Palazzo Venierdei Leoni 701 Dorsoduro 30123 Venice Tel. +39 041 2405411 Fax. +39 041 5206885 info@guggenheim-venice.it |
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The Peggy Guggenheim Collection is the most important museum in Italy for European and American art of the first half of the 20th century. It is located in Peggy Guggenheim's former home, Palazzo Venier dei Leoni, on the Grand Canal in Venice. The museum presents Peggy Guggenheim's personal collection of 20th century art, as well as temporary exhibitions.
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The Bevilacqua La Masa Foundation was founded in 1898 shortly after the Biennale of Venice. It owes its name to its founder Felicita Bevilacqua, widow to General La Masa. Felicita Bevilacqua left her family palace, Cà Pesaro, which is located along the Grand Canal, to the City of Venice under the condition that it should be used as a place for artistic culture in the city. Thus the Bevilacqua La Masa Foundation was founded and rapidly became a point of reference and launching pad for young artists such as Boccioni, Casorati, Semeghini, Gino Rossi and Arturo Martini, to name just a few.
Since its 100th anniversary in 1999, the Bevilacqua La Masa space has hosted exhibitions dedicated to artists such as Jean-Michel Basquiat, Louise Bourgeois, Joseph Beuys, Milton Glaser, Shirin Neshat, Frida Kahlo, Sonia Delaunay, and to the critic Giuseppe Marchiori. Intended as a space for young artistic research, the Bevilacqua La Masa Foundation continues to pursue its mission after a century of existence.
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Home to some exceptional and often famous works of art, including stunning masterpieces and portraits painted by some of the most notable artists in Venice from the XIV to the XVIII century like Bellini, Giorgione, Carpaccio, Tiziano, Tintoretto, Veronese e Tiepolo. On the second floor at the galleries, the long corridor of the Palladian cloister is used as display of such a vast selection of paintings, sculptures and works of art, including both classical and modern art work.
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Palazzo Ca’ d’Oro, now home of the Franchetti Gallery, is one of the main attractions of Venetian Gothic architecture, built at the beginning of the 15th century on the wishes of Marini Contarini. The name of Ca’ d’Oro (The Golden home) comes from the wealth of gold leafing that once decorated its façade. The original project was probably by the architect Marci D’Amadio, but the work was carried out by Lombard craftsmen and then later by Venetian ones. Ca’ d’Oro changed owner several times and was finally bought and renovated by the Baron Giorgio Franchetti in the 19th century. He then donated his own collection of paintings and this building to the State in 1916. In 1927, the palace was turned into a museum that now houses several works of art by Tiziano and Tintoretto and some Gothic and Renaissance furniture.
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The Museum of Modern Art and the Museum of Oriental Art in Venice are housed in the wonderful seventeenth-century building known as Ca’ Pesaro, a true example of Venetian Baroqe style. The Modern Art Gallery has an interesting collection of paintings and sculptures by nineteenth and twentieth century artists. On the second floor there is a large collection of oriental art pieces, divided into two sections: China and Indonesia on one side and Japan on the other.
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Include many icons, but also miniature painting, golden sacral standards that belonged to Archbishops that came from Philadelphia and other works of art and craft whose value was high from the historical and artistic point of view. The collection has been made up by the member of the Pinning and other orthodoxies, many icons were taken to Venice by displaced people and others were Klonzas, Emanuele Lambardos, Teodoro Pulakis, Emanuele Tzanes Bunialìs.
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The Jewish Museum of Venice is situated in the Campo of the Ghetto Novo, between the two most ancient Venetian synagogues. It is a little but very rich museum founded in 1953 by the Jewish Community of Venice. The precious objects shown to public, important examples of goldsmith and textile manufacture made between the 16th and the 19th centuries are a lively witnessing of the Jewish tradition. The rooms of the museum are dedicated to silver wares reminding the most important Jewish festivities.
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The museum conserve furnishings of the '700 and the '800, chinas biscuit and sculptures of Querini house. The Pinacoteca offers painted of Giovanni Bellini, Lorenzo di Credi, Jacopo Palm Vecchio and Jacopo Palm the Young person, Bernardo Strozzi, Giovanni Tiepolo Batiste, Peter Longhi and Beautiful Gabriel.
the Foundation offers to the short visitors concerts, is executed from alive from students and the Masters of the School of Ancient Music of Venice. |
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The museum, been born in order to conserve the reproductions in scale of the ships constructed in the yard of the Serenissima, guards today approximately 2500 pieces not alla exposed, but that ruotano every two years. Particular they are the section dedicated to the estremo oriente, the collection of the shells of Roberta Small room, the Collections of ancient columbrine, to petrere and guns, the plastics of the piazzeforti military of the Serenissima Republic in the Mediterranean and on the island of Egeo.
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Located on the Grand Canal next to the Campo San Samuele, Palazzo Grassi was built between 1748 and 1772 for the wealthy Bolognese Grassi family. Its design is attributed to Giorgio Massari, the architect also responsible for the church of the Gesuati and Ca’ Rezzonico, which faces the Palazzo Grassi across the Grand Canal. It was one of the last palaces built in Venice before the fall of the Republic in 1797.
In 1978, a group of businessmen took over the Palazzo and turned it into an art exhibition space. It was purchased by FIAT in 1983, when Gianni Agnelli entrusted the remodelling of the Palazzo for its new purpose to Milanese architect Gae Aulenti, in collaboration with Venetian architect Antonio Foscari. They introduced some essential modernizations and put their own unmistakable stamp on the interior. From then on, until 2005, the Palazzo Grassi enriched the Venetian cultural scene on many occasions with a series of major and much praised exhibitions.
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The Library, by Jacopo Sansovino, was built between 1537 and 1560. It conserves many valuable manuscripts, and many ancient editions. A ceiling containing a painting by Titian, and the Library Hall, a mannerist painting in Venice are twenty-one "tondo" paintings, by seven painters chosen by Titian and Sansovino: the most famous are those by Paolo Veronese; on the walls are portraits of Philosophers, some by Tintoretto and Veronese.
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The Scala Contarini del Bovolo, hidden to the inside of one the small court nearest Campo Manin, laughed them to 1499. Architectonic elements of the first Rinascimento melt to the constructive techniques gotico-bizantine, creating a harmony of shapes from the typically venetian character in an only monument in its kind.
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Home to a highly regarded collection of more than 50 paintings by Tintoretto, Venice's Scuola Grande Di San Rocco Museum is an absolute must for art lovers in Venice. Painted in the 1500s, many of these canvases took over 20 years to complete and have made Venice extremely famous. Probably the most renowned paintings housed in the Scuola Grande Di San Rocco Museum of Art is Tintoretto's 'Crucifixion in the Albergo'.
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