“The plaster casts of Canova now
live here, where even the lion’s paw is finally free.”
Tobia Scarpa
Venezia – Opening: New Palladian Rooms in the Gallerie dell’Accademia.
The Gallerie dell’Accademia are enriched with seven new rooms set in the wing
of the convent of the Canonici Lateranensi designed by Andrea Palladio. This is
a further important step towards the realization of the ambitious project of
the Great Galleries promoted by the Ministry of Culture, Heritage and Tourism,
and was made possible through the support of the Venice International
Foundation - Friends of Venice Italy Inc., chaired by Franca Coin, and Venice
in Peril Fund, chaired by Jonathan Keates, as part of the UNESCO Joint Program
- International Private Committees for the safeguarding of Venice.
Above. Antonio Canova –
Lions – 1783-1792 –plaster casts –monument Clemente XIII Rezzonico. The
Palladian Wing designed by Andrea Palladio.
photograph and copyright by Manfredi
Bellati
Minister for Heritage, Culture and
Tourism
Dario Franceschini
Venice International Foundation -
Friends of Venice Italy Inc.
Franca Coin and Dario Franchescini
Venice in Peril, Fund - Lady
Clarke
Le Gallerie dell’Accademia – Giulio
Manieri Elia
New Palladian Rooms in
the Gallerie dell’Accademia. Giulio Manieri Elia and Roberta Battaglia, who
together with neo director Paola Marini scientifically organized the route of
the new seven rooms designed to host the heroes of Venetian art in the eighteenth
and nineteenth centuries and especially with great attention to the works of
Antonio Canova. Canova's works are mostly exposed in
the light gallery overlooking the Palladian courtyard where the famous plaster
casts of the great artist are in dialogue with each other and with the
architecture of the great architect Andrea Palladio.
Above.
Le Gallerie dell’Accademia’s Roberta Battaglia - Bas
Relief – Antonio Canova.
Le Gallerie dell’Accademia -
director
Paola Marini
Comite
Francais pour la Sauvegarde de Venise – president
Jerome
Zieseniss
Venice in Peril Fund
Dario Franceschini and Jonathan
Keates
Lady Clarke and Marina
Morrison Atwater
John Millerchip
UNESCO – head of culture
Veronique Dauge
Accademia di Belle Arti – Venezia – president
Luigino and Roberta Rossi
New Palladian Rooms in the Gallerie
dell’Accademia. The layout of the restoration was led by Tobia Scarpa
and guarantees a formal continuity in the context of the important restoration
project of the Grandi Gallerie dell’Accademia co-directed with Renata Codello.
This intervention is aimed at enhancing the extraordinary heritage collected in
over two centuries of Venetian history within the magnificent spaces of the
Palladian convent, at last be enjoyed by the public on a permanent basis.
Above.
Architect Tobia and Valeria Scarpa.
photograph and copyright by Manfredi
Bellati
New Palladian Rooms in
the Gallerie dell’Accademia. An entire room is dedicated to Francesco Hayez a great
pupil of the Venetian Academy, next to his early works, amongst which the
Rinaldo and Armida, will be exposed the Distruzione del Tempio di Gerusalemme
considered to be his spiritual testament.
Above. The Francesco
Hayez Room - Rinaldo and Armida – 1813-14.
Giovanni
Alliata di Montereale and prefect of Venice, Domenico Cuttaia
Franca
Coin and Alessandra Mancino
Tonci
and Barbara Foscari
director
Museo Diocesano in Venice, Don Gianmatteo Caputo and Davide Zoggia
Bartolomeo
Ferrari da Antonio Canova – Pieta – 1830
plaster
cast
Antonio
Canova - Pieta – 1817-1821
terracotta
Venetian
Heritage – president
and vice president
Valentina
Nasi Marini Clarelli and
Toto Bergamo Rossi
Laura
Scarpa, Pamela Berry Morasutti Vitale, Alessandro Tusset, Novella Papafava dei
Carraresi and Gigi
Bon
Luigi Borro – La Liberazione dell’Ossesso - 1850
Plaster – detail
Fabio Moretti and Alessandra Zoppi - Isabella Casa
Palumbo Fossati
Piergiorgio Coin and Inma Cavallucci de Dalmases
Hugues Le Gallais and Justine Bradley – Irina
Ivancich Marchesi
Ketty Alvera and Liesl Odenweller
Luca Massimo Barbero and Fabio Moretti
Photograph and copyright Manfredi Bellati
Antonio Canova – Busto di Napoleone – 1803-06
plaster
Cesare De Michelis
Giandomenico Romanelli – Valeria Regazzoni and
Lorenzo Cinotti
Erilde Terenzoni
President Venice
International Foundation - Franca Coin
Mayor of Venice – Luigi
Brugnaro and
Minister
for Culture, Heritage and Tourism - Dario
Franceschini
Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia – director –
Gabriella Belli
La Biennale di venezia – president - Paolo Baratta
Canova - restorers
Gea Storace and Stefano Provinciali
Antonio Canova – Paride -
1807-1812
Plaster
The
Peggy Guggenheim Collection - director
Philip
Rylands and Micky White
We Are Here Venice – co-founder
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Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana – director
Maurizio Messina
Museo Correr - director
Andrea Bellieni
Emanuela Bassetti
Renato Pellicioli and Teresa Baldi
Guarinoni
Christopher and Anna Wayman
Gallerie dell’Accademia – Andrea
Palladio
Palladian Wing