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Un Ospite di Venezia-11-2023

Around the middle of the century, Francesco Hayez portrays Matilde, a young noblewoman from the Pirovano Visconti di Modrone family: an undoubtedly splendid work by an artist recognized as the main exponent of the Italian Romantic movement. This is the image we have chosen to open this month to introduce one of the most important artistic and cultural events of the year: the reconstruction, a hundred years later, of what turned out to be a true event, an exhibition that brought to light the Venetian art of an entire century, long overshadowed by the mythologizing of the preceding one, the 18th century.

Around the middle of the century, Francesco Hayez portrays Matilde, a young noblewoman from the Pirovano Visconti di Modrone family: an undoubtedly splendid work by an artist recognized as the main exponent of the Italian Romantic movement.

This is the image we have chosen to open this month to introduce one of the most important artistic and cultural events of the year: the reconstruction, a hundred years later, of what turned out to be a true event, an exhibition that brought to light the Venetian art of an entire century, long overshadowed by the mythologizing of the preceding one, the 18th century.

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Rediscovering

the Nineteenth century…

We are about mid-century, when Francesco

Hayez portrays Matilde, a young noblewoman

from the Pirovano Visconti di Modrone family:

an undoubtedly splendid artwork, by an artist

acknowledged as the principal exponent of the

Italian Romantic current.

It is the image we have chosen for opening this

month, in order to introduce one of the most important

artistic and cultural events of the year:

the reconstruction, one hundred years later, of

what revealed itself to be a true occasion, an exhibition

highlighting a century-long Venetian art,

eclipsed for a long time by the former Eighteenth

century's legend.

It was precisely 1923, when Nino Barbantini –

the first Director of the Ca’ Pesaro Modern Art

Gallery – today International - organised and

set up a seminal exhibition entitled “The Nineteenth-century

Venetian portrait”.

The result was an extraordinary success both in

terms of public and press, inaugurating a new

course for the Venetian Gallery and for Barbantini's

activity, aimed, during the Twenties, at planning

significant monographic exhibitions about

periods or individual protagonists in Italian art.

Today, following long-term and complex research

work which has led to sourcing 166 artworks by

52 artists, the Venice City Museums Foundation

takes us back to that historic occasion, to view

the countenances of several society, art, culture

and life figures together again in an exhibition

with that same title, from a territory extending

from Venice to Friuli Venezia Giulia.

A fascinating journey, divided in four sections,

accompanying visitors along the

century's whole span, leading

from the Congress of Vienna

(1815) to the troubled unification

of Italy, touching on the

protagonists of that age and

Nineteenth century lifestyles

of society, concluding with the

"Portrait, towards modernity",

where evident signs of change

will soon lead to a new dimension,

the Twentieth century.

To sum it up, an exhibition for all

enthusiasts, but not only, and a

unique opportunity... not to be

missed.

Fascino e attrazioni

del novembre veneziano

Con l’autunno tutto sembra rallentare, offrendo

una parvenza di pace, di tranquillità, sensazioni

oggi, purtroppo, sempre più rare a trovarsi.

Venezia sembra ancor più immergersi nel suo

elemento naturale, quell’acqua da dove è nata.

Le prime foschie lagunari e le tenue luci della

sera la fanno quasi tornare indietro nel tempo.

E’ il momento di vivere appieno la città attraverso

le emozioni che suscita ma anche per tutto ciò

che offre attraverso i suoi musei, le sue chiese, i

suoi teatri… le sue manifestazioni.

Ecco allora a seguire, come da nostra consuetudine,

qualche spunto su un’offerta che non lascia

dubbi, per qualità e forza attrattiva.

Partiamo come spesso accade da La Biennale,

l’istituzione culturale veneziana per eccellenza,

nota nel mondo per una produzione che da oltre

un secolo promuove le tendenze delle Arti e della

Cultura del mondo contemporaneo.

La Mostra internazionale di Architettura

Oltre che per l’indubbio valore intrinseco va segnalata

per il suo ultimo mese di presenza: la 18.

edizione chiuderà infatti definitivamente i battenti

il 26 di novembre.

Promossa da La Biennale di Venezia questa maxi-esposizione

si sviluppa lungo un vasto percorso

attraverso la mostra tematica, articolata tra il

padiglione centrale ai Giardini, il vasto complesso

dell’Arsenale ed alcuni spazi in terraferma.

Il laboratorio del futuro, questo il titolo assegnatole

dalla curatrice Lesley Lokko, si presenta

come una visione sul prossimo futuro del mondo

e sul rapporto tra uomo e ambiente partendo dal

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