Sunday, October 27, 2019

Venice: Ca' Rezzonico - The Venice International Foundation - Annual Fundraising Gala Dinner


Photograph and copyright Manfredi Bellati


Venice – Ca' Rezzonico Museo del Settecento Veneziano

The Venice International Foundation
Annual Fundraising Gala Dinner
Album Cicognara Restauration – Premio Cotisso

The annual dinner of the members of The Venice International Foundation was held this year in the majestic ballroom of Ca' Rezzonico Museo del Settecento Veneziano on the Canal Grande. The gala dinner celebrated the ongoing project of the restoration of the Album Cicognara, housed in the Museo Correr and the assignment of the 2019 Cotisso Award, which was given this year to the Rubelli Dynasty, the Venetian family of fine fabric manufacturers known throughout the world.

Alberto Craievich - director - Ca' Rezzonico Museo del Settecento Veneziano - director - Drawings and Prints Cabinet at Museo Correr
Franca Coin – president – The Venice International Foundation – president – Friends of Venice, Italy, Inc.



2019 - Cotisso Award
Rubelli Dynasty

The highlight of the evening was the 2019 Cotisso Award ceremony. This year’s award didn’t go to a single person but to an entire dynasty: that of the Rubelli a family of fine fabric producers known throughout the world who have masterfully infused all the Venetian culture and tradition into their highly artistic fabrics.

Katia Da Ros, Franca Coin, Luca Bombassei, Guido Venturini,
Lisa Paola, Alessandro, Lorenzo, Andrea and Sandrina Favaretto Rubelli, Helene de Prittwitz Zaleski and Giacomo Cavallucci

  Copyright - Archivio Fotografico Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia – courtesy Venice Foundation


Album Cicognara
Fundraising Project

Once again, the fundraising dinner was for the ongoing restoration project, the Album Cicognara, a collection of 81 drawings made by the greatest Neoclassical artists, both Italian and foreign - including Francesco Hayez, Giuseppe Bossi, Antonio Canova - donated as a sign of esteem and friendship to Leopoldo Cicognara, great patron, cultured historian, brilliant art critic, as well as President of the Academy of Fine Arts of Venice from 1808 to 1826 and "cultural operator" ante litteram for the protection, promotion and production of the arts. Friends of Venice Italy Inc. the American sister of the Venice Foundation also contributed to the fundraising project. The restoration started a few months ago and Alberto Craievich - in the dual role of director of Ca' Rezzonico and responsible for the Drawings and Prints Cabinet of the Museo Correr, where the Album is kept, updated guests on the status and progress of the works that should be concluded between spring and summer of 2020. To better ensure the conservation of the individual sheets, the Album will be "dissolved" and the hope of the Venice Foundation members is to be able to admire them all together in an exhibition dedicated to this important collection, which well represents the expressions of all the artistic schools of the Nineteenth century.

Francesco Hayez - Portrait - Leopoldo Cicognara - foglio 73


Franca Coin, Cesare and Liliana Rimini

 
Guido Venturini, Isa and Pierino Persico and Giulia Venturini



Renato Pellicioli, Katia Da Ros and Marco Cappelletto


Valentina Borgogni and Giacomo Cavallucci



Morella Morelli, Luca Bombassei, Aurelio Latella, Giordana Naccari 
Fabio Pacifico

 
Alberto Craievich
director - Ca' Rezzonico Museo del Settecento Veneziano
director - Drawings and Prints Cabinet at Museo Correr



Giulio Manieri Elia, Alessandra Mancino and Paolo De Benedictis

 

Andrea and Sandrina Favaretto Rubelli





Lorenzo Favaretto Rubelli

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Album Cicognara - Museo Correr - cover



Manfredi Bellati and Tonci Foscari


Paola and Andrea Tomat


 
Guido and Paola Pennisi



Cecilia Matteucci Lavarini


Catherine Orentreich and Elizabeth Royer Grimblat


L’Aperitivo

 
Jean-Francois and Odile Saglio



Giuliana Dall’Ora

 

Felice Casson and Milva Andriolli





Ferigo and Claudia Foscari




Roberta Brunetti and Marco Cappelletto

 
Angelica Fontana and Alessandra Mancino



Paolo and Maura Costa

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Antonio Canova - Studio di Panneggio - foglio 34

 
Daniela Ferretti


 
Lara Caballini di Sassoferrato and Carmen Verderosa



Concetta Varalla and Daniele Zanichelli
 

Manuela Pivato and Andrea Giacobino

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Francesco Hayez – Selfportrait – foglio 63


 
The Ballroom
Ca' Rezzonico Museo del Settecento Veneziano

The majestic ballroom was created in 1750 by the architect Giorgio Massari, with frescos by Giambattista Crosato and architectural trompe-l’oeil by Girolamo Mengozzi Colonna. The room is a heraldic and allegorical exaltation of the owners. The visitor is transported into a magical, fairytale atmosphere within the walls of a family home. The only pieces of the original furnishings remaining are the two majestic wooden chandeliers with floral patterns in gilded metal. Along the walls we find lavish ornamental furnishings in ebony and boxwood by Andrea Brustolon, one of the greatest Baroque sculptors of wood.



“In our fascinating and extraordinary adventures linked to Antonio Canova - started in Venice in 2012 at the Museo Correr and then continued through the years at the Gallerie dell’Accademia, the Gypsotheca and Museo Antonio Canova in Possagno up to the most recent exhibitions in Venice and in New York - we have learned to appreciate not only the great Neoclassical master but also the whole world that evolves around him. A world made up of his important clients, his international relations, his family, the smallest circle of friends. Among these, Leopoldo Cicognara, an enlightened figure, a patron and promoter of the arts, who played a fundamental role, and at the same time was a sincere and fraternal friend to Canova, so much so that it was in his arms that the sublime master died in 1822 behind Piazza San Marco.”
Franca Coin

Alberto Craievich - director - Ca' Rezzonico Museo del Settecento Veneziano - director - Drawings and Prints Cabinet at Museo Correr
Franca Coin – president – The Venice International Foundation president – Friends of Venice, Italy, Inc.

 
The Premio Cotisso
Dynasty Rubelli

Lisa Paola, Alessandro, Lorenzo, Andrea and Sandrina
Favaretto Rubelli



The Premio Cotisso

The hunky pure and monochrome glass sculpture created exclusively for Venice Foundation by designer Giordana Naccari

 
Irene Favaretto
Author – Rubelli. Una Storia di Seta a Venezia
Rubelli. A Story of Silk in Venice


 
Menu – Centerpiece

centerpiece on Damantio base - Rubelli - a spool of yarn for loom warp and silk scarf with Vasarely design



Alessandro Cecchi Paone and Nicola Cenedese



 
Guazzetto del Mediterraneo



 
Cristina Pecori, Claudia Irti and Richard Wilson

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Turpin de Crisse’ - Venice towards San Moise’ – foglio 15


Carla Comelli and Guido Venturini

 
Tonci Foscari, Paola and Andrea Tomat, Barbara Foscari, Paolo De Benedictis, Sandrina and Andrea Favaretto Rubelli


Semifreddo al Caffe’ con Crema di Cioccolato Fondente e Frutti Rossi

 
Franca Coin and Friends
Daniele Zanichelli, Concetta Varalla, Alessandra Mancino, Angelica Fontana, Elizabeth Royer Grimblat, Catherine Orentreich
Manfredi Bellati

 
Mara Zanette and Cinzia Boscolo


 
Veronica Vianello



 
Venice – Ca' Rezzonico Museo del Settecento Veneziano